num_pages: 408
description: 'He is brilliant...He writes like the most cultivated modern diplomat attached by a freak of time to the Byzantine court, with intimate knowledge, tactful judgment and a consciousness of the surviving monuments' - "Independent". In this exciting narrative history, John Julius Norwich, one of most accomplished popular historians, reveals the beginning of Byzantium. He tells of the five formative centuries of an empire that would enthrall the western world for more than eleven hundred years.
language: English
title: Byzantium: The Early Centuries
titlecomplete: Byzantium: The Early Centuries
characters: Belisarius, Constantine the Great, Justinian I (Byzantine emperor), Attila the Hun, Charlemagne
genres: Historical, Greece, Medieval History, European History, Nonfiction, Ancient History, World History, Classics, Medieval, History
ratings_count: 1706
places: Byzantine Empire
series: A History of Byzantium
publisher: Penguin UK