A history of Byzantium

The crisis of the third century

The revival under Diocletian

The age of Constantine the Great

The fourth century : Constantius II to Theodosios I

The fifth century

The age of Justinian

The Byzantine "dark ages" : late sixth and seventh centuries

The Isaurian dynasty and iconoclasm

Continued struggle over ikons

The beginnings of the Macedonian dynasty

The apogee of Byzantine power

The komnenoi

The aftermath of the fourth crusade

The beginnings of decline

The end of the empire

Byzantium after the fall of the city.