Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c.680-850: A History
"This is the most important book on Byzantium to appear in my lifetime. The authors admirably fulfill their stated intention to discuss political recovery and institutional reshaping, the final stages in the evolution of eastern Orthodox dogma, the emergence of a new political and social elite, the transformation of urban life as well as urban-rural relations, and the generation of a new 'medieval' perspective on the past." -Thomas F. X. Noble, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History