Articles on the Byzantine Empire

This section lists articles related to the Byzantine Empire.  Most of the articles are from our website, but others link to outside websites.

Alemany, Agusti, Sixth Century Alania: Between Byzantium, Sasanian Iran and the Turkic World - from Transoxiana Ērān ud Anērān (2003) (PDF file)

Carrier, Marc, Perfidious and Effeminate Greeks: the Representation of Byzantine Ceremonial in the Western Chronicles of the Crusades (1096-1204) - from Annuario dell'Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica Venezia (2002)

Chevedden, Paul, The Invention of the Counterweight Trebuchet: A Study in Cultural Diffusion (please also the plates) - from Dumbarton Oaks Papers v.54 (2000) (PDF file)

Christides, Vassilios, Military Intelligence in Arabo-Byzantine Naval Warfare - from Byzantium at War (1997)

Dennis, George T., The Byzantines at Battle - from Byzantium at War (1997)

Dennis, George T., Byzantine Heavy Artillery: The Helepolis - from Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies v.39 (1998)

Dennis, George T., Defenders of the Christian People: Holy War in Byzantium - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file)

Fisher, Sydney Nettleton, The Foreign Relations of Turkey 1481-1512 - EJOS, v.3 n.3 (2000)

France, John, Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade - from Reading Medieval Studies v.10 (1984)

Haldon, John, Strategies of Defence, Problems of Security:  the Garrisons of Constantinople in the Middle Byzantine Period - from Constantinople and its Hinterland (1995)

Haldon, John, The Organisation and Support of an Expeditionary Force: Manpower and Logistics in the Middle Byzantine Period - from Byzantium at War (1997)

Holmes, Catherine, 'How the east was won' in the reign of Basil II - from Eastern Approaches to Byzantium (2001)

Huxley, George, The Emperor Michael III and the battle of Bishop's Meadow (AD 863) - from Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies v.16 (1975)

Inalcik, Halil, Osman Ghazi's Siege of Nicaea and the Battle of Bapheus - from The Ottoman Emirate: 1300-1389 (1993)

Jeffreys, Elizabeth and Jeffreys, Michael, The "Wild Beast from the West ":Immediate Literary Reactions in Byzantium to the Second Crusade - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file)

Kazhdan, Alexander, Latins and Franks in Byzantium: Perception and Reality from the Eleventh to the Twelfth Century - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file)

Kaegi, Walter, Procopius the Military Historian - from Byzantinische Forschungen 15 (1990)

Laiou, Angeliki E., Byzantine Trade with Christians and Muslims and the Crusades - from The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (2001) (PDF file)

Laiou, Angeliki E., Political History: An Outline - from The Economic History of Byzantium: From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century (2002) (PDF file)

Markham, Paul, The Battle of Manzikert: Military Disaster or Political Failure? (2005)

McCotter, Stephen, Byzantines, Avars and the Introduction of the Trebuchet (2003)

McCotter, Stephen, 'The Nation which Forgets its Defenders will Itself be Forgotten':  Emperor Maurice and the Persians (2003)

McCotter, Stephen, The strategy and tactics of siege warfare in the early Byzantine period from Constantine to Heraclius - from Golden Horn: Journal of Byzantium v.4 (1996)

McGeer, Eric, Byzantine Siege Warfare in Theory and Practice - from The Medieval City Under Siege (1995) 

McGrath, Stamatina, The Battles of Dorostolon (971): Rhetoric and Reality - from Peace and War in Byzantium (1995)

Nicol, Donald, Constantine XI and Mehmed II: the fall of Constantinople 1448-53 - from chapter 18 of Last Centuries of Byzantium (1993)

Omran, Mahmoud Said, John Kinnamos as a Historian of the Second Crusade - from Uluslararasi Hacli Seferleri Sempozyumu (1999)

Pappas, Nicholas C.J., English Refugees in the Byzantine Armed Forces:  The Varangian Guard and Anglo-Saxon Ethnic Consciousness (2004)

Philippides, Marios, The fall of Constantinople: Bishop Leonard and the Greek Accounts - from Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies v.22 (1981)

Sullivan, Denis, Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals from 'Heron of Byzantium' - published by Dumbarton Oaks (2000) (PDF file)

Treadgold, Warren T., Notes on the numbers and organisation of the ninth-century Byzantine army - from Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies v.21 (1980)

Whittow, Mark, Rural Fortifications in Western Europe and Byzantium, Tenth to Twelfth Century - from Byzantinische Forschungen v.21 (1995)