Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ...

A tour of the Byzantine churches in the historic center of Athens offers history, unique architecture, and a rare viewing ...

Associate Prof. Koray Durak, the curator of "The Adventure of Byzantine Studies in Turkey" exhibition, says that although society has continuous "physical contact" with Byzantium in Turkey, the public ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2020. Pp. xiv, 208+. Illus., apppends., references, biblio., index. $29.95 paper. ISBN: 1526782006 The Apex of ...

In 1907 about 18 young men, heads of their households and all under 30 years old, gathered to start a church in Northeast Minneapolis. Ethnic Rusins, they had emigrated from an east European region ...

Congratulations to my dear friend Sharon Gerstel, an art history professor at University of California at Los Angeles, on her Runciman Award, which she just got for her book, “Rural Lives and ...

Istanbul makes an exotic first impression: Boat traffic on the Bosporus sends waves brushing up against the shores of both Europe and Asia as enormous mosques and monuments from previous empires stand ...