Encyclopedia of the Byzantine Empire

This is a reference book for the Middle Ages commonly referred to as the “Greek” Middle Ages, as they were lived in the geographical region of Eastern Europe and Asia Minor. The history of the Byzantine Empire, which existed from the reign of Constantine the Great in the third century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, is a fascinating account of a culture that, while maintaining contact with Rome and Western culture during the Middle Ages, still developed independently of its Western counterpart. The Byzantine Church, while Christian, developed separated rituals, guidelines, and authority structures from the Roman Church....