Lost World of Byzantium Harris Jonathan
A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world's greatest empiresFor more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as…
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A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world's greatest empiresFor more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead recounts the empire's extraordinary history by focusing each chronological chapter on an archetypal figure, family, place, or event.Harris's action-packed introduction presents a civilization rich in contrasts, combining orthodox Christianity with paganism, and classical Greek learning with Roman power. Frequently assailed by numerous armies--including those of Islam--Byzantium nonetheless survived and even flourished by dint of its somewhat unorthodox foreign policy and its sumptuous art and