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Language: en
Pages: 441
Pages: 441
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-06-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, an
Language: en
Pages: 441
Pages: 441
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
A long overdue and thrillingly paced narrative of one of the most dramatic periods in Medieval history, Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood provides an engaging ch
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-21 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Justinian governed the Roman empire for more than thirty-eight years, and the events of his reign were recorded by Procopius of Caesarea, secretary of the gener
Language: en
Pages: 309
Pages: 309
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-02 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Although Byzantium is known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire, scholars have long claimed that this Greek Christian theocracy bore little resemblance to Ro
Language: en
Pages: 249
Pages: 249
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big