Byzantine law did not know national and racial differences and was emphatically universalistic with regard to ethnicity. Continue reading “Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) perception of ‘Islam’”
Christian (Eastern Roman Empire)-Muslim (Turkish) relations through the works of Nicetas Choniates (1155-1217 A.D.)
Nicetas Choniates – a short biography
Nicetas was born in Chōnai, in Phrygia (hence his name Chōniates, sometimes incorrectly given as Akominatos or Acominatus), in about 1155. Continue reading “Christian (Eastern Roman Empire)-Muslim (Turkish) relations through the works of Nicetas Choniates (1155-1217 A.D.)”