Byzantine


Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Byzantium: The Early Centuries
The Secret History
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall
Byzantium: The Apogee
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
The Alexiad
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
The Fall of Constantinople 1453
History of the Byzantine State
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
A Short History of Byzantium
A History of the Byzantine State and Society
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500 to 1492
W.B. Yeats
...the Byzantine style, which so few care for to-day, but which moves me because these tall, emaciated angels and saints seem to have less relation to the world about us than to an abstract pattern of flowing lines that suggest an imagination absorbed in the contemplation of Eternity.
W.B. Yeats, The Tables of the Law

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