| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xxiv, 389 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Describes Byzantium's battles against foreign threats, its internal conflicts, the return of iconoclasm in the ninth century, and the struggles between Anatolia's military aristocracy and the eunuchs of the capital. |
| Contents |
ǂg List of Illustrations -- ǂg Maps -- ǂg Family Trees -- ǂg Introduction -- ǂt Krum [800-14] -- ǂt The Return of Iconoclasm [814-29] -- ǂt Theophilus [829-42] -- ǂt The Images Restored [842-56] -- ǂt Of Patriarchs and Plots [857-66] -- ǂt Double Murder [866-7] -- ǂt Basil the Macedonian [867-86] -- ǂt Leo the Wise [866-912] -- ǂt The Rise of Romanus [912-20] -- ǂt The Gentle Usurper [920-48] -- ǂt The Scholar Emperor [945-63] -- ǂt The White Death of the Saracens [963-9] -- ǂt John Tzimisces [969-76] -- ǂt The Young Basil [976-89] -- ǂt The Bulgar-Slayer [989-1025] -- ǂt The Decline Begins [1025-41] -- ǂt The End of the Paphlagonians [1041-2] -- ǂt Constantine Monomachus and the Schism [1042-55] -- ǂt Prelude to Catastrophe [1055-9] -- ǂt Manzikert [1059-81] -- ǂg List of Emperors -- ǂg List of Muslim Sultans -- ǂg List of Patriarchs -- ǂg List of Popes -- ǂg Bibliography -- ǂg Index. |
| Subject |
Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081.
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| ISBN |
0394537793: $30.00 |
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