ISBN10: 0713999977, ISBN13: 9780713999976, [publisher: Allen Lane, United Kingdom] Hardcover First Edition Boards and unclipped DJ with mild edgewear and bumping. Solid binding and clean text. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 392 pages
[North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

Hardback. Very Good. ISBN 0713999977 9780713999976 [GB]

ISBN10: 0713999977, ISBN13: 9780713999976, [publisher: Allen Lane] Hardcover For a thousand years Byzantium was a byword for imperial power, gold and international trade. This extraordinary but now little known empire combined paganism and classical Greek and Roman learning with orthodox Christianity, and for centuries held back the armies of Islam, making possible the transition from antiquity to modern Europe. Many long tomes have plodded through the emperors and battles of Byzantium, from the founding of its magnificent capital of Constantinople (today's Istanbul) in 330, to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Judith Herrin takes a new approach. In a concise and compelling account she focuses each short chapter around a theme such as a building (the great church of Hagia Sophia), luxury silks, iconoclasm, the fork, the crusades, or an individual, using them to take the reader on a journey from ancient to medieval times. She paints a magnificent panorama of the forces and beliefs at work during the millennium of Byzantium, and brings the experience of the Byzantine age to life in a beautifully written and exceptionally accessible work that is also an original contribution to historical scholarship.
[Gravesend, KENT, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]