Byzantium in the Seventh Century
Subtitle: The Transformation of a Culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 25, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780521264921
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Byzantine Empire - History; History: World; Byzantine Empire; Europe; Byzantine Empire--Civilization--527-1081; History / Europe / General; 527-1081; Civilization
First sentence: It is all too easy to forget that every human society, whatever its achievements and the ways in which it impresses itself upon its natural context, is closely bound to its geographical and climatic conditions of existence in ways which may at first seem insignificant, or so obvious as to need no further consideration.