ABSTRACT
The Roman Empire in the East to which from the sixth century onwards modern historians usually apply the label 'Byzantine Empire'. The most important aspect of Byzantine dominance was arguably Bulgaria's adoption of Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, with the consequence that its church was subject to the patriarch of Constantinople. Around 885, a series of texts for Church services –a liturgy in other words –came into use in Bulgaria which had been written by the Byzantine missionaries Constantine and Methodius that it was arguably in itself an aspect of Byzantine influence on Bulgaria. Hungary, which was emerging as a state between Moravia and the River Danube at the end of the ninth century, also enjoyed relations of this type with the Byzantine Empire. A. D. Lee offers, for the period of the transition from Roman Empire to Byzantine Empire down to the reign of Justinian, a detailed narrative interspersed with reflective discussions of the relevant themes.
