THE year is AD 536, and Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea has just arrived in southern Italy. The balance of power in the Mediterranean is in flux: Vandals had sacked Rome in 455 and the ...

Have you ever thought that politics feels like a rollercoaster, with machinations and sharp ups and downs similar to those of ...

Documents from Ireland, for example, describe “a failure of bread” for a few years after 536 AD, and there are ... wreaking havoc in the Byzantine Empire and possibly killing about 40% of ...

In AD 536, the first of three massive volcanic ... and the transformation of the eastern Roman empire into the Byzantine empire. “There was dramatic social, cultural, and political change ...

The Byzantine ... the Byzantine Empire. 532 The Nika riots lead to widespread destruction in Constantinople. In their wake Justinian starts the construction of the Hagia Sophia. 536 Temperature ...

(Inside Science) -- By examining the literal dustbins of history, archaeologists have now shed light on how a 125-year "little ice age" might have wreaked havoc on the Byzantine Empire -- an ...

A 'Late Antique Little Ice Age' 1,500 years ago, triggered by three large volcanic eruptions, contributed to the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire (aka Byzantine ... from 536 AD has been linked ...

It is “Byzantine ... I (306-337 AD) turned the Roman world from its “pagan” roots towards Christianity, and after the city of Rome ceased to be the capital of the Roman Empire in 330 ...

In the summer of A.D. 536, a mysterious cloud appeared over the Mediterranean basin. “The sun gave forth its light without brightness,” wrote the Byzantine historian Procopius, “and it ...