Today, we will take a closer look at the characteristics of this military corps, which served as the vanguard against external enemies between the 9th and 11th centuries. Although sometimes rendered ...

The famous helmet from the ship burial at Sutton Hoo in England may be evidence that Anglo-Saxon warriors fought as mercenaries for the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century, a new study finds.

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

For the Eastern Roman Empire -- known to us as "Byzantine" -- the Danube was a critical military and political frontier. In the disastrous seventh century this frontier was overwhelmed by invading ...

Dumbarton Oaks/Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 2008 . Pp. xv, 381 . Illus., map, diagr., notes, biblio., index . $19.95 paper. ISBN:0884023397 Originally ...