Kassiani (also known as Kassia) was a ninth-century abbess and composer born in Constantinople around 810 AD. And her music is heart-stoppingly beautiful – just listen… She was one of the first ...

The Byzantine Review is an open-access journal publishing peer-reviewed reviews of recent publications and short articles from all areas of Byzantine studies.

“We uncovered a farmhouse of the Byzantine period that apparently housed ... in the late seventh to ninth centuries – the Early Islamic period. Aerial image of the ancient mosque outside ...