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Byzantine Books
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,566 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,966 ratings — published 1988
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,497 ratings — published 550
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,179 ratings — published 1995
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,323 ratings — published 1991
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,523 ratings — published 2005
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,345 ratings — published 1148
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 575 ratings — published 1078
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,091 ratings — published 2007
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,593 ratings — published 1965
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.40 — 794 ratings — published 1956
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.09 — 886 ratings — published 2004
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,691 ratings — published 1997
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.26 — 280 ratings — published 1997
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500 to 1492 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.30 — 60 ratings — published 2009
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.87 — 951 ratings — published 2006
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,034 ratings — published 1938
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.21 — 566 ratings — published 2017
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,566 ratings — published 2007
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.97 — 648 ratings — published 2009
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.56 — 390 ratings — published 2023
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.39 — 170 ratings — published 2014
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.93 — 58 ratings — published 2003
Belisarius: The Last Roman General (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.83 — 387 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.87 — 70 ratings — published 1995
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.26 — 786 ratings — published 2023
A History of Byzantium (Blackwell History of the Ancient World)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.93 — 298 ratings — published 2005
The End of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.01 — 86 ratings — published 2011
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.27 — 37 ratings — published 2007
The Byzantine Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.01 — 157 ratings — published 2013
Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,562 ratings — published 2000
Byzantium and the Crusades (Crusader Worlds)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 142 ratings — published 2003
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204 (Warfare and History)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.22 — 59 ratings — published 1993
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.33 — 129 ratings — published 2019
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 348 ratings — published 2017
Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2010
The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.70 — 56 ratings — published 2002
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.21 — 43 ratings — published 2004
History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453, Volume II (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.11 — 93 ratings — published 1935
History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453, Volume I (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.06 — 149 ratings — published 1925
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,993 ratings — published 1971
The Bearkeeper's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.95 — 541 ratings — published 1987
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.84 — 135 ratings — published 1980
History of the Wars, Books III and IV: (Vandalic Wars)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.22 — 94 ratings — published 550
History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Persian War)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.07 — 235 ratings — published 550
The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,473 ratings — published 2013
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.92 — 245 ratings — published 2001
Byzantine Art (Oxford History of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.89 — 125 ratings — published 2000
Byzantine Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.05 — 171 ratings — published 1933
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.35 — 43 ratings — published 2004
“...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.”
― The Tables of the Law
― The Tables of the Law
