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100 1 $aHerrin, Judith.
245 10$aByzantium :$bthe surprising life of a medieval empire /$cJudith Herrin.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2007.
300 $axxiii, 391 p., [24] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.), maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 339-353) and index.
505 0 $gIntroduction :$tA different history of Byzantium --$tThe city of Constantine --$tConstantinople, the largest city in Christendom --$tThe East Roman Empire --$tGreek Orthodoxy --$tThe church of Hagia Sophia --$tThe Ravenna mosaics --$tRoman law --$tThe bulwark against Islam --$tIcons, a new Christian art form --$tIconoclasm and icon veneration --$tA literate and articulate society --$tSaints Cyril and Methodios, 'apostles to the Slavs' --$tGreek fire --$tThe Byzantine economy --$tEunuchs --$tThe imperial court --$tImperial children, 'born in the purple' --$tMount Athos --$tVenice and the fork --$tBasil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' --$tEleventh-century crisis --$tAnna Komnene --$tA cosmopolitan society --$tThe fulcrum of the crusades --$tThe towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike --$tRebels and patrons --$t'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' --$tThe siege of 1453 --$gConclusion :$tThe greatness and legacy of Byzantium.
651 0$aByzantine Empire$xHistory.
651 0$aByzantine Empire$xCivilization.