The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense ...
It appears to be from the Byzantine Empire, and other coins like it are sometimes attributed to John III Doukas Vatatzes, who ...
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi, 440+. Illus., maps, table, appends., notes, biblio., index. $44.99. ISBN: 1108480713 A Byzantine ...