Author: E.W. Brooks

This process of history may be said to have entered on its effective stage in the West with Alaric’s invasion of Italy. But it had been present, as a potentiality and a menace, for many years before …

The Arabs first invaded Asia Minor during the commotions of 641. In 642 a plan of Valentine for a combined attack on them was frustrated by his defeat; but Theodore and Procopius penetrated as far as …

THE history of the Byzantine Empire under the rule of the Isaurian dynasty is one of the periods in the prolonged evolution of the monarchy least easy of comprehension. The work of the sovereigns usu …