Title: Byzantium
Subtitle: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
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.
Subjects: Byzantine empire, history, Byzantine empire, civilization, History, Civilization, Df552 .h47 2007, 949.502