Byzantium

Abstract Byzantium is commonly taken to be a somewhat exotic entity on the margin of medieval Europe—bureaucratic, Greek- rather than Latin-speaking, Orthodox rather...

By the end of the 7th century, a new superpower was applying pressure on the East Roman Empire. ‘Byzantium and Islam’ describes the rise of Arab power and the evolution of Islam. T...

Abstract This collection offers the first ever comprehensive, easily accessible, and uniquely assorted anthology of primary texts in translation on the entire histor...

‘What was Byzantium?’ explains the creation of the Christian Empire that ruled for over a thousand years from the great city of Constantinople. It describes the evolution of the Ro...

Abstract This is the first comprehensive, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire (or Byzantium) to appear in over a generation. It begins with the foundat...

This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes, smells and sights of past water cultures. Constanti...