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"At a moment when the splendors of Byzantine art are being rediscovered and celebrated in America, John Julius Norwich has brought together in this remarkable edition the most important and fascinating events of his dazzling trilogy of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire." "With wit, intellige... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Constantine the Great (to 337)
- Julian the Apostate (337-63)
- The empire at bay (363-95)
- The fall of the west (395-493)
- The rise of Justinian (493-540)
- Justinian-the last years (540-65)
- The first crusader (565-641)
- The Heraclian line (641-711)
- Iconoclasm (711-802)
- The images restored (802-56)
- Of patriarchs and plots (857-67)
- The Macedonian and the sage (867-912)
- The gentle usurper (912-48)
- The scholar emperor (945-63)
- The Bulgar-slayer (976-1025)
- The decline begins (1025-55)
- Manzikert (1055-81)
- Alexius Comnenus (1081-1118)
- John the beautiful (1118-43)
- Manuel Comnenus (1143-80)
- The fourth crusade (1180-1205)
- Exile and homecoming (1205-61)
- The Angevin threat (1261-82)
- The two Andronici (1282-1341)
- The reluctant emperor (1341-54)
- The sultan's vassal (1354-91)
- The appeal to Europe (1391-1448)
- The fall (1448-53).