Changing of the guard: The CryForByzantium project on Twitter has been saved!
Someone has stepped up to the plate to continue the CryForByzantium Twitter project. Meet your new emperor!
Brothers in power, migration and pending disaster!
Robert Horvat's survey of Byzantine history continues! Here is an interesting article on two brother-emperors, Valentinan and Valens, who co-ruled the empire in the mid-4th [...]
The Monastery of Saint Catherine.
Robert Horvat of the History of the Byzantine Empire blog has done it again with another fantastic article. This one is about a sacred place [...]
Our Great Father is Gone: the death of Constantine I.
I was asked to write this post by Robert Horvat, curator of the great History of the Byzantine Empire blog (and the If It Happened [...]
Saint or Sinner ?
Who was Constantine the Great? This question still haunts us more than 1500 years after his death. In this interesting post, Robert Horvat looks beyond [...]
“Zombies of Byzantium” reviewed on Zombipedia!
It's been a while since I've done a post on my book Zombies of Byzantium, and as I'm gearing up for the release of my new [...]
Photo: four Roman emperors and a power metal fan.
The above photo caught my eye the instant I first saw it on Robert Horvat's article about the Tetrarchs, because the picture, quite unwittingly, unites [...]
Over a thousand years of glory, but where does it actually begin ?
Here's the new article on Robert Horvat's "History of the Byzantine Empire" blog, with some interesting thoughts on when Byzantine history can be said to [...]
Earth: the Castel dell’Ovo, where the last Western Roman Emperor lived (and died?)
This imposing-looking fortress in the harbor of Naples, Italy is called the Castel dell'Ovo, has been a fortress, a monastery and a prison since Roman [...]
Earth: The Hippodrome, Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey.
Because today is the 560th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, I thought it fitting that my next Earth post should be somewhere in the [...]