What were the duties of the emperors in the Byzantine Empire?

Answer 1

Byzantine Empire is a term historians have coined to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire in 476. The western part fell under the weight of the invasions by Germanic peoples. The eastern part was not affected by these invasions and continued to exist from another 1,000 years. The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the name of the Greek city of Byzantium which was redeveloped, turned into the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople (city of Constantine) by Constantine the Great in 330. It is used to refer tot the fact that this empire quite soon became centred on Greece and Greek in character after it lost most of its non-Greek territories. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620, about 150 years after the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire. The Romans did not use this term. They used Roman Empire or Romania (which did not refer to the modern county of Romania).

The Byzantine emperors did what emperos do. They ruled their empire

Answer 2

The Byzantine emperor was an absolute ruler. He also exerted control over the church of the empire, the Orthodox Christian Church.