The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...

Byzantine Empress Theodora, would become an actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist, empress of the civilized world, and ...

Mosaic of Byzantine Empress Theodora. Credit: Petar Milosevic, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 The amazing relationship between Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora is one of the most ...

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But a love affair with a handsome Greek whom she meets in Byzantium ...

The artist wrote to his romantic partner Emilie Flöge that he considered Ravenna’s glittering mosaics “incredibly stunning,” including the famed depictions of Emperor and Empress Justinian ...

These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the mouth of Justinian I, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ... It was during this time that Belisarius received the order from Empress Theodora to ...

Betancourt also implores us to avoid ‘toxic respectability politics’, a demand that comes through most sharply in his treatment of Empress Theodora, the anti-heroine of Procopius’ sixth-century Secret ...

THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp ... the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for ...

Empress Theodora is referred to as the most powerful woman in Byzantine history. She was the wife of Justinian I, who was crowned Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 527 AD. As his partner, she ruled ...