Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire - Judith Herrin - Softcover FF is illustrated throughout and presents

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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire - Judith Herrin - Softcover FF is illustrated throughout and presentsFor 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 Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilization which for centuries held in check the armies of Islam. Judith Herrin's concise and compelling book replaces the standard chronological approach of