Mary Ann Bernal

Universal pre-order link From the sweeping hills of Argences to the port city of Cologne overlooking the River Rhine, Etienne and...

Medievalists Mosaic of John II Komnenos in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.  John II Komnenos (1087-1143) was an accomplished and successf...

MedievalistsNet A scene of Byzantine warfare from the Madrid Skylitzes  Could you defeat a medieval army without resorting to a clas...

Ancient Origins Israeli archaeologists have announced the discovery of a hoard of rare Byzantine bronze coins from a site dating back t...

June 28 548 Byzantine Empress Theodora, wife of Emperor Justinian I, and thought to be the most influential and powerful woman in the R...

June 7 421 Eudocia Athenais married Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II who constructed a series of defensive walls that surrounded and prot...

April 9 475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issued a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite...

December 24 563 The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by eart...

December 15  37 Nero was born. He was the Roman emperor who is alleged to have fiddled while Rome burned.  533 Byzantine genera...

December 9 536 Byzantine General Belisarius conquered Rome, which had been occupied by the Ostrogoths, claiming Italy for the Byz...

October 5  610 Byzantine Emperor Heraclius' fleet took Constantinople. He was responsible for introducing Greek as the Eastern Em...

  Sept 19  335 Dalmatius was raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I.  912 Emperor Leo VI was born. Known as th...

Sept 12  1185 Byzantine emperor Andronicus I was tortured and executed by the Greek nobility, led by Isaac Angelus, during a war betw...

Sept 2  911 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signed a treaty with Byzantines. 1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the lion hear...

August 31 651 St. Aidan died. A monk at Iona, Scotland, Aidan became the first bishop of Lindisfarne. 1056 Byzantine Empress Theod...

August 17 986 A Byzantine army was destroyed in the pass of Trajan's Gate by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron....

May 29,  363 Roman Emperor Julian defeated the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but ...

April 16 1178 BC The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War. 1071 Bari, (coastal region o...

April 9 475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issued a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysit...

January 12  475 Basiliscus became Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople.     532 the...