The making of Byzantium, 600-1025 /
This book is an excellent, up-to-date reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Well illustrated with original maps, it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the crisis of the seventh century, and the means...
| Основен автор: | Whittow, Mark, 1957- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1996.
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Съдържание:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Sources for early medieval Byzantium
- The strategic geography of the near east
- The Roman world in 600
- The fall of the old order
- How the Roman empire survived
- The shock of defeat
- The Byzantine response: on the defensive
- The Byzantine empire and its non-Muslim neighbours, c. 600- c. 950
- The age of reconquest, 863-976
- The reign of Basil II, 976-1025.