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Byzantine Empressesby Lynda Garland
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204. more...
Age of Justinianby J.A.S. Evans
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95A readable and absorbing account of the great Emperor Justinian detailing the social structure of sixth-century Byzantium and Justinian's wars which restored Italy, Africa and part of Spain to the Empire. more...
Failure of Empireby Noel Emmanuel Lenski
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. more...
A History of Byzantiumby Timothy E. Gregory
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005; US$ 82.95A concise narrative of Byzantine history from the time of Constantine the Great (AD 306) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The book views Byzantium as a vital society, important in its own right, but that also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern society. more...
The Rome That Did Not Fallby Stephen Williams; Gerard Friell
Routledge 1998; US$ 130.00The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilisation of Byzantium. more...
John Lydus and the Roman Pastby Michael Maas
Routledge 1992; US$ 138.00John Lydus and the Roman Past offers a new interpretation of the emergence of Byzantine society as viewed through the eyes of John Lydus, a sixth-century scholar and civil servant. more...
Procopiusby Averil Cameron
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 45.95In this new evaluation of Procopius, Professor Cameron emphasises the essential unity of the three works and, startin with the 'minor' ones, deomstrates their intimate connection with the Wars. more...
Economy and Society in the Age of Justinianby Peter Sarris
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 33.00Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that, instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda, there emerges an emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the state in the face of large-scale aristocratic tax-evasion and resistance. more...
The Byzantinesby Averil Cameron
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 42.95This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines. This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the forefront of European history Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps more...
Being Byzantineby Gill Page
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 87.00New interpretation of the medieval history of Greece over the period 1200-1420, focusing on the ethnic identity of the Greeks. more...









