A short history of Byzantium
By: John Julius Norwich.
Contributors: Norwich, John Julius, 1929-
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Byzantine Empire -- Civilization
Description: With wit, intelligence and an unerring eye for riveting detail, Lord Norwich tells the dramatic history of Byzantium from its beginnings in AD 330 when Constantine the Great moved the imperial capital from Rome to the site of an old Greek port in Asia Minor called Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople, to its rise as the first and most long-lasting Christian empire, to its final heroic days and eventual defeat by the Turks in 1453.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1997.

Abridgment of the author's three-vol. work Byzantium.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-[404]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1: The early centuries. Constantine the great [to 337]; title: Julian the Apostate [337-63]; title: The Empire at bay [363-95]; title: The fall of the West [395-493]; title: The rise of Justinian [493-540]; title: Justinian : the last years [540-65]; title: The first crusader [565-641]; title: The Heraclian line [641-711]; title: Iconoclasm [711-802]; title: Pt. 2: The apogee. The images restored [802-56]; title: Of patriarchs and plots [857-67]; title: The Macedonian and the sage [867-912]; title: The gentle usurper [912-48]; title: The Scholar emperor [945-63]; title: The tale of two generals [963-76]; title: The Bulgar-slayer [976-1025]; title: The decline begins [1025-55]; title: Manzikert [1055-81]; title: Pt. 3: The decline and fall. Alexius Comnenus [1081-1118]; title: John the Beautiful [1118-43]; title: Manuel Comnenus [1143-80]; title: The Fourth Crusade [1180-1205]; title: Exile and homecoming [1205-61]; title: The Angevin threat [1261-82]; title: The two Andronici [1282-1341]; title: The reluctant emperor [1341-91]; title: The Sultan's vassal [1354-91]; title: The appeal to Europe [1391-1448]; title: The fall [1448-53].651 0Byzantine Empire ?x Civilization.