Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Judith Herrin

414 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe’s transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with ...

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