Byzantium
Subtitle: the surprising life of a medieval empire
By: Judith Herrin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780691131511
Subjects: Byzantine Empire -- History.; Byzantine Empire -- Civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-353) and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: A different history of Byzantium; value: The city of Constantine; value: Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom; value: The East Roman Empire; value: Greek orthodoxy; value: The church of Hagia Sophia; value: The Ravenna Mosaics; value: Roman law; value: The bulwark against Islam; value: Icons, a new Christian art form; value: Iconoclasm and icon veneration; value: A literate and articulate society; value: Saints Cyril and methodios, 'apostles to the slavs'; value: Greek fire; value: The Byzantine economy; value: Eunuchs; value: The imperial court; value: Imperial children, 'born in the purple'; value: Mount Athos; value: Venice and the fork; value: Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer'; value: Eleventh-century crisis; value: Anna Komnene; value: A cosmopolitan society; value: The fulcrum of the crusades; value: The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike; value: Rebels and patrons; value: 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara'; value: The siege of 1453; value: Conclusion: The greatness and legacy of Byzantium.