12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of The Byzantine Empire

In the years following Justinian's death, the empire was rocked from within and without. Barbarians pushed in on every b... Read more

By the time Basil II was crowned at age two, the Macedonian Dynasty had led the Byzantine Empire to seemingly endless mi... Read more

When the weak, ineffectual emperor Leo IV died in 780, he left the empire divided and in the hands of an orphan from Ath... Read more

When the 24 year old Alexius Comnenus came to the throne, the glories of the Empire seemed long gone. Its "invincible" a... Read more

Basil I was hardly a promising candidate to usher in a new golden age to the Byzantine Empire. A poor, illiterate Armen... Read more

With the reconquest of Italy seemingly complete and the Persian threat momentarily neutralized by the plague, Justinian ... Read more

With the return of relative calm after the reign's turbulent beginnings, Justinian could turn to his most ambitious proj... Read more

As the 6th Century dawned on the tottering Byzantine State, the future seemed to hold only decline and decay, and yet un... Read more

By the middle of the 5th Century the Roman Empire was on the verge of collapse. Its emperors were mere puppets, its armi... Read more

A shy, awkward, Pagan philosopher with no ambitions and no experience is appointed Caesar. How could such an unlikely 23... Read more