The stories peddled by QAnon supporters today strike an all too familiar chord. Not only are many of their narratives routed in late medieval “blood libel,” but the way they manage to straddle the ...

Together, Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora I transformed the Byzantine landscape. The ranks of Eastern Orthodox saints are filled with celibates and monastics, but not all Orthodox saints ...

Franklin and Eleanor. Juan Perón and Evita. Bill and Hillary. Husband and wife political teams are a common theme in modern history. Justinian “The Great” was born about 482 in a peasant village in ...

Prof. Heather (King’s College, London), author of a number of works on the late Roman Empire, notably The Restoration of Rome, on efforts to restore the Empire in the West after its “fall”, takes a ...

Betancourt is a professor at University of California, Irvine, and author of Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages available now from Princeton University Press.