This book explores the Byzantine city and the changes it went through from 610 to 1204. Throughout this period, cities were always the centers of political and

The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not ‘urban’ in the sense of the word today, its cities played a f

This book follows the public life of Michael Palaiologos from his early days and upbringing, through to his assumption of the Byzantine imperial throne in 1258.

More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbia

Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new arc