Historian whose sparky, innovative Byzantines challenged the stereotype of a stagnant society with nothing new to offer ...

Dame Averil Cameron, who has died aged 86, was Professor of Byzantine History at Oxford, and a leading voice in a generation ...

Crimea was a key site of conflict between the Byzantine Empire and the early Russian people, the Rus', in the Middle Ages.

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Only three Christian martyrs are described as Byzantine soldiers, but all were honored as warrior saints who lived during ...