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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin Publisher Comments "This book provides an introduction to Byzantium in a nonconventional fashion. It explores, in chronological order, basic questions about Byzantine history and society. I know of no other book that attempts this approach to the millennium-long history of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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What Life Was Like Amid Splendor and Intrigue: Byzantine Empire, Ad 330-1453 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Justinian by G P Baker Publisher Comments Justinian (482-565 A.D.), who ruled the Roman Empire from his capital in Constantinople, was, along with his wife Empress Theodora, one of the most scandalous monarchs in history. During his reign, Justinian oversaw the construction of the Hagia Sophia... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley Publisher Comments Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley's readable... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman Publisher Comments While their victory ensured the Turks' survival, the conquest of Constantinople marked the end of Byzantine civilization for the Greeks, by triggering the scholarly exodus that caused an influx of Classical studies into the European Renaissance.... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Byzantium by Giles Morgan Publisher Comments The Byzantine Empire lasted for over a thousand years, created remarkable art and architecture and a lasting cultural and religious legacy that still has significance today. Now recognized as having had a considerable influence on the Renaissance and a... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Canto Classics) by Steven Runciman Publisher Comments This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory... (read more) Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Byzantine Slavery And The Meditterranean World by Youval Rotman Publisher Comments Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. It is a troubling paradox, and one this book addresses by considering a period in which the definition of slavery and freedom... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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The Byzantines by Guglielmo Cavallo Publisher Comments For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $26.00 New - Trade Paper
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Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Michael Angold Publisher Comments Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise and authoritative history of the successor to Roman imperial power: the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was a Greek polis on the Bosphorus that gained importance in 324 AD when it was re-founded by Constantine the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen Publisher Comments A richly told story of the collision between natures smallest organism and historys mightiest empire The Emperor Justinian reunified Romes fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Short History of Byzantium by John J Norwich Publisher Comments With the same dazzling intelligence and narrative mastery he brought to his acclaimed three-volume history of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich produces a shorter, more accessible chronicle of the world's longest-lived Christian empire. Beginning with the... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sailing From Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (06 Edition) by Wells Publisher Comments This fascinating intellectual adventure story takes readers back to the fall of a magnificent empire and beyond in order to reveal how a rich cultural heritage traveled the crossroads of history.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mediaeval Academy Reprints for Teaching #0004: Constantine & Conversion of Eu by Arnold Hugh M Jones Publisher Comments Originally published by Macmillan, 1948.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Byzantine Empire by Robert Browning Publisher Comments Presents the history of the Byzantine Empire from the sixth to the fifteenth century in terms of the political events, art, literature, and thought of Byzantine society.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453 #1: History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453, Volume 1 by Alexander Vasiliev Publisher Comments “This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford History of Byzantium by Cyril Mango Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-318) and index.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $34.00 Used - Hardcover
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Byzantium #2: Byzantium (II): The Apogee by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments Volume 2 of the series. With 32 pages of illustrations, and 7 maps.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Alexiad (09 Edition) by Anna Komnene Publisher Comments A revised edition of a medieval masterpiece-the first narrative history written by a woman Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and revealing primary sources in the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization by Lars Brownworth Publisher Comments In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell-or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine Empire, would endure and often flourish for another eleven centuries. Though its capital would move to Constantinople, its... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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