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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...
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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 nature's smallest organism and history's mightiest empire The Emperor Justinian reunified Rome's fractured empire by defeating the Goths and Vandals who had separated Italy, Spain, and North Africa from...
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
by Roger Crowley Publisher Comments When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, a remarkable era in world history ended. In this volume, Crowley gives a complete and compelling account of the Holy War for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West that gave rise to today'...
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
by Colin 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....
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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
by Colin 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....
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The Oxford History of Byzantium
by Cyril Mango Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-318) and index....
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The Byzantine Commonwealth
by Dimitri Obolensky Publisher Comments Throughout much of the Middle Ages, Eastern Europe-the Balkans, Russia, Rumania and the land on either side of the Danube--was affected by Byzantine political and cultural influence. From the barbarian invasions to the Middle Ages, this is an...
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The Siege of Rhodes
by Nanami Shiono Publisher Comments Knighthood's Final Hour? <BR>By the early sixteenth century, Rhodes, the "Isle of Blossoming Roses," had become a thorne in the Ottoman Empire's side. Located only eleven miles from the coast of Asia Minor, the island was controlled by the Order of...
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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...
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Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium
by Jonathan Harris Publisher Comments In the early Middle Ages the greatest city in Europe was not Paris, London or Berlin but Constantinople, capital of Byzantium. It was an article of faith that a saintly emperor, divinely appointed, had founded Constantinople and that the city was as holy...
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Byzantines (97 Edition)
by Guglielmo (ed.) 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...
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Crusades
by Michael Paine Publisher Comments This book examines the bloody, violent, and sometimes farcical reality behind our images of the Crusades, traces the chronology of the campaigns from 1095, when the first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II, to 1291, and the fall of Acre, and...
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Byzantium and the Crusades (06 Edition)
by Harris Publisher Comments Jonathan Harris is Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London....
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Byzantium: An Illustrated History
by Sean Mclachlan Publisher Comments Hippocrene Books now features Illustrated Histories of 30 civilizations, countries, cities and states! Each of the these volumes depicts the entire history of a region or people, from earliest times to the present, including major political and economic...
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Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
by Kenneth G Holum Publisher Comments "Theodosian Empresses" sets a series of compelling women on the stage of history and offers new insights into the eastern court in the fifth century....
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Byzantium: A History
by John Haldon Publisher Comments The remarkable 1000 year history of one of the world's largest and most misunderstood empires....
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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...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian
by Michael Maas Publisher Comments Introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the flowering of Byzantine culture....
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Justinian
by G P Baker Publisher Comments Examines how Emperor Justinian (482-565 A.D.) and his wife, Empress Theodora, both infamous, he for corruption and she for sexual depravity, fought revolts, riots, intrigues, and plots in an attempt to restore the Roman Empire to its former glory and to...
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Byzantium: Decline & Fall
by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments Third volume in the series. With 32 pages of illustrations and 10 maps and tables....
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