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Author Herrin, Judith, author.

Title Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire / Judith Herrin
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 391 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents 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
Summary Explores the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, including important figures who shaped its history and the role it played in protecting Christianity from Islam's expansion across western Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-353) and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
Civilization
SUBJECT Byzantine Empire -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018483
Byzantine Empire -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018476
Subject Byzantine Empire
Byzantinisches Reich
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400832736
140083273X