BYZANTIUM: THE SURPRISING LIFE OF A MEDIEVAL EMPIRE.
Publisher: ALLEN LANE; Allen Lane
Published: 2007
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 391
Description: For a thousand years Byzantium was a byword for imperial power, gold and international trade. In this concise history of the empire, Judith Herrin focuses each short chapter around a theme such as a building, luxury silks, the fork, the crusades, or an individual, using them to take the reader on a journey from ancient to medieval times.