Byzantium: An Illustrated History

Byzantium: An Illustrated History

Editorial Reviews
ForeWord, January, 2005
"This book fills the need for a capsule history of this neglected empire."

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Long after Rome fell to the Germanic tribes, its culture lived on in Constantinople, the glittering capital of the Byzantine Empire. For more than a thousand years (A.D. 330 to 1453), Byzantium was one of the most advanced and complex civilizations the world had ever seen. Born in the Classical era, it flourished in the Middle Ages and contributed to the flowering of the Renaissance.

As the Mediterranean outlet for the Silk Route, with trade networks stretching from Scandinavia to Sri Lanka, it served as a vital bridge between the Muslim East and the Catholic West. Its artists created somber icons and brilliant mosaics that inspired French kings and Arab emirs alike. Its priests and monks fostered the Orthodox Christianity that is the faith of millions today.

Byzantium: An Illustrated History offers more than 50 photographs and maps, a timeline, a chronology of emperors, and a guide to Byzantine sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and the Middle East.

Byzantium: An Illustrated History

Byzantium: An Illustrated History,Sean McLachlan,Hippocrene Books,0781810337,Ancient - General,Byzantine Empire,Civilization,History,History - General History,History: World,Medieval,Pictorial works,World - General,Europe,European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)

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