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 Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval EmpireBest Price: $18.72 Because the Byzantine Empire lasted 1,129 years (from Constantine's founding of Constantinople... |  Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the WorldBest Price: $7.14 Survey of how Byzantium influenced the Western, Arabic, and Slavic cultures and religions it... |  The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Canto)Best Price: $15.48 Over five hundred years have passed since Constantinople became Istanbul. It is difficult to... |  The Secret History (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.55 In which an apparently loyal aide gets a mountain of bile off his chest and proves that no man... |  Byzantium: The Decline and FallBest Price: $22.50 Norwich's final volume in his sweeping history of the Byzantine Empire is bitter-sweet. As... |
 Byzantium (II): The Apogee (Byzantium)Best Price: $30.22 Norwich's narrative can only be described as "Epic". It is difficult to imagine how... |  Byzantium: The Early CenturiesBest Price: $18.00 The book does an amazing job detailing military ventures in the Byzantine Empire and gives a... |  History of the Byzantine StateBest Price: $28.00 This book is a well presented overview of the political history of the Byzantine Empire. ... |  Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of EuropeBest Price: $1.29 Avoid this book like the plague. I am an avid reader of history and found this book one of the... |  A Short History of ByzantiumBest Price: $8.75 There is no doubt that the author accomplishes what he sets out to do: provide a concise... |
 The Oxford History of ByzantiumBest Price: $19.75 An excellent introduction to the subject for non-specialists. Lucidly written covering all the... |  The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3-Volume Set)Best Price: $279.97 This three volume set is just what every Orthodox seminarian needs on his bookshelf! I couldn't... |  The Conquest of Constantinople (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, 36)I just recently finished reading The Conquest of Constantinople for my War in the Middle Ages... |  Byzantium at WarBest Price: $6.73 I noticed author sometimes uses wrong names for "Rus", or "Kievan Rus". He... |  Constantine Porphyrogenitus: De Administrando Imperio (Dumbarton Oaks Texts)Best Price: $265.51 Really a great editor's (Gy. Moravcsik) and translator's (R. Jenkins) work. The very book, as... |
 Byzantium and the Early Islamic ConquestsBest Price: $34.30 I actually really enjoyed this book. It did a great job shedding light on why Byzantium caved so... |  Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Transformation of the Classical Heritage)Best Price: $18.00 Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the... |  Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural RelationsBest Price: $52.00 For me, and I think for Professor Nicol (judging from the book's cover), the themes of the book... |  An Ungodly War: The Sack of Constantinople & the Fourth CrusadeBest Price: $77.79 Just a quick comment. The book seems extremely biased and appears to analyze a medieval event... |  What Life Was Like Amid Splendor and Intrigue: Byzantine Empire Ad 330-1453 (What Life Was Like)Best Price: $14.99 The book "What Life Was Like Amid Splendor and Intrigue - Byzantine Empire AD... |
 Yarmuk AD 636: The Muslim conquest of Syria (Campaign)Best Price: $14.21 The author does a pretty good job of covering this battle between the Muslim forces of the 7th... |  From Rome to Byzantium: The Fifth Century ADBest Price: $25.34 I have long been a fan of Mr. Grant's books. He has been the most prolific Classicist author of... |  People and Power in Byzantium: An Introduction to Modern Byzantine Studies (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies)Best Price: $10.75 |  Byzantium: Church, Society and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary EyesThis is an excellently compiled collection of translated original source material regarding the... |  The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor: Byzantine and Near Eastern History, AD 284-813Best Price: $266.45 Theophanes the Confessor (d.818) was a Byzantine abbot who fell victim to the Iconoclastic... |
 Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-century Painting (The New Middle Ages)Best Price: $60.00 In Byzantium two overlapping systems of dress existed: a semiotic one whereby dress was a code... |  Studies in Byzantine Institutions, Society and Culture: Institutions and Society (Hellenism : Ancient, Mediaeval, Modern, No 14)Best Price: $60.00 |  The Byzantine EmpireBest Price: $22.45 The main problem with this book is the poor way in which the material is presented. Browning... |  Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History (Dumbarton Oaks Texts)Best Price: $28.97 |  The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: States, Resources and Armies (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)Best Price: $49.95 |
 Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries AD 610-1070 (MART: The Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching)Best Price: $19.65 I read this book about five years ago, so it's not fresh in my memory. As I recall, it does... |  The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society, 1204-1453 (The Middle Ages Series)Best Price: $27.49 Mark C. Bartusis' book is a tightly written and well organized scholarly exploration of the... |  Byzantine Legacy in Eastern Europe, TheBest Price: $105.29 |  Historical Dictionary of ByzantiumBest Price: $95.01 The Byzantine Empire is often overlooked by Western scholars as an offshoot of Greco-Roman... |  The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025Best Price: $39.99 An excellent book for someone who wants to gain an understanding of the Empire and what drove... |
 Byzantium: The Bridge from Antiquity to the Middle AgesBest Price: $6.00 As aforementioned, this book is largely a study of ecclesiastical history from the time of... |  Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204Best Price: $119.00 The first extended work in the field since Charles Diehl published his Figures Byzantine more... |  The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh Through the Fifteenth Century (Campus) |  The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and his Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium (Cambridge Paperback Library)Best Price: $33.90 I don't know, maybe i am not objective with Runciman's work, i considered himself the most... |  The History of Theophylact Simocatta: An English Translation with Introduction (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)Best Price: $26.96 Theophylact wrote his history in the mid-7th century AD during the brief revival of Roman... |
 The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East: Problems in the Literary Source Materials (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, No. 1) (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam)Best Price: $45.00 |  Six Byzantine Portraits (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints)Best Price: $31.97 A collection of biographies, this book tells the story of six outstanding men--four of them... |  Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies)Best Price: $54.57 |  Byzantium And the Crusades (Crusader Worlds)Best Price: $15.37 The first great city the crusaders came to in 1089 was not Jerusalem but Constantinople, the... |  Law and Society in Byzantium: Ninth-Twelfth Centuries (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies)Best Price: $35.18 The essays in this volume investigate themes related to the place of law in Byzantine ideology... |
 Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism: Papers from the Twenty-Eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1994 (Publications (Society ... of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)), 4)Best Price: $110.97 |  A Shared WorldBest Price: $17.75 Here Molly Greene moves beyond the hostile "Christian" versus "Muslim"... |  The Early Byzantine HistoriansBest Price: $80.16 The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine... |  The Byzantine Lists: ERRORS OF THE LATINS (Illinois Medieval Studies)Best Price: $28.97 Tia Kolbaba has written a fairly short, but very informative work regarding attitudes of the... |  The Development of the Komnenian Army 1081-1180: 1081-1180 (History of Warfare, 5) (History of Warfare, 5)Best Price: $133.28 |
 The Emperor Maurice and His Historian: Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare (Oxford Historical Monographs)Best Price: $144.60 This review is aimed at a general reader such as myself. In summer 2001 I borrowed the original... |  A Temple for Byzantium: The Discovery and Excavation of Anicia Juliana's Palace-Church in IstanbulBest Price: $91.95 |  Encyclopedia of the Byzantine EmpireBest Price: $67.69 I was prepared to like this book, as it has a nice look and feel--physically well-constructed... |  Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Byzantine Studies)Best Price: $26.78 Although ethnicity is a modern concept and would not have been recognized by the Byzantines,... |  The Byzantine Lady: Ten Portraits, 1250-1500 (Canto)Best Price: $70.00 This is a lively collection of ten short, annotated and illustrated biographies of aristocratic... |
 The Byzantine Achievement: An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453 |  Byzantine Magic (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library)Written by specialists in several disciplines, this volume explores the parameters and... |  Quellen Zur Geschichte Des Fruhen Byzanz (4.-9. Jahruhundert : Bestand Und Probleme) (4.-9. Jahruhundert : Bestand Und Probleme)Best Price: $83.99 |  Imperial Byzantine PortraitsBest Price: $50.00 | |
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