Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the Byzantine capital.

Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world, including in the Balkans, Middle East, and North ...

A city's value to the empire was determined in part by how it connected east and west. For that reason, Constantinople was the ideal capital of the Byzantine Empire. In addition to being one of the ...

Many factors contributed to the survival of the Byzantine Empire. It had a good infrastructure system that funneled agricultural supplies, and it had a good infrastructure system that funneled these ...

The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453, when Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) was conquered by the Ottoman Turks. Through the past two centuries, fabled Byzantium was reduced to little more ...

John Julius Norwich tells the dramatic story of the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, followed by the rise of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th Century. Using monuments in Istanbul to ...

The fascinating last chapter recounts the fate of Constantinople and its people under Ottoman rule and the stories of some of the Byzantine refugees who fled to the West. It reviews the emergence of ...

The Byzantine Review ist eine open-access Zeitschrift im Peer-Review-Verfahren, welche Besprechungen von Neuerscheinungen und kurze Beiträge aus allen Bereichen der byzantinischen Studien ...