The subject of the emperor in the Byzantine world may seem likely to be a well-studied topic but there is no book devoted to the emperor in general covering the span of the Byzantine empire. Of course
The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that a€?the study of the Byzantine family is still in its infancya€?, and this assertion remai
This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis in English of all the writings of Julian (r. AD 361-363), the last pagan emperor of Rome, noted for his frontal and self-conscious challenge to Chri
