The Byzantine Empire

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"Byzantine" is usually defined as complex or intricate, and in the worst of cases, devious. Ever since Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" in the 19th Century, this is how modern historians have classified the Eastern Roman Empire. And while it is true that certain aspects of this nation--especially some of its unscrupulous leaders--were truly "byzantine," the reality is much more nuanced. Before Gibbon, historians called this nation what its own citizens and other nations ca...Vis mer