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Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire
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- Creator
- Judith Herrin
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- Language
- English
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- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009
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- xxiii, 391 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780691131511, 0691131511, 9780691143699, 0691143692
- OCLC
- ocn434126238
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-353) and index.
- Introduction : A different history of Byzantium -- The city of Constantine -- Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom -- The East Roman Empire -- Greek Orthodoxy -- The church of Hagia Sophia -- The Ravenna mosaics -- Roman law -- The bulwark against Islam -- Icons, a new Christian art form -- Iconoclasm and icon veneration -- A literate and articulate society -- Saints Cyril and Methodios, 'apostles to the Slavs' -- Greek fire -- The Byzantine economy -- Eunuchs -- The imperial court -- Imperial children, 'born in the purple' -- Mount Athos -- Venice and the fork -- Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' -- Eleventh-century crisis -- Anna Komnene -- A cosmopolitan society -- The fulcrum of the crusades -- The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike -- Rebels and patrons -- 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' -- The siege of 1453 -- Conclusion : The greatness and legacy of Byzantium