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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,838 ratings — published 2007
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,890 ratings — published 1988
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,031 ratings — published 2005
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,394 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,267 ratings — published 1991
The Alexiad (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,284 ratings — published 1148
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,128 ratings — published 1995
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 270 ratings — published 1997
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 455 ratings — published 2017
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 152 ratings — published 2014
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,610 ratings — published 1997
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.58 — 281 ratings — published 2023
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,364 ratings — published 550
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 922 ratings — published 2006
The Oxford History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 332 ratings — published 2002
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 763 ratings — published 1956
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 114 ratings — published 2019
The Byzantine Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 150 ratings — published 2013
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 636 ratings — published 2009
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 572 ratings — published
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
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avg rating 4.02 — 556 ratings — published 1078
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 327 ratings — published 2017
Ghost Empire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,821 ratings — published 2016
History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian Volume 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 44 ratings — published
The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 104 ratings — published 1971
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,531 ratings — published 1965
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 55 ratings — published 2003
The Later Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 271 ratings — published 1993
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,858 ratings — published 1971
The Later Roman Empire (A.D. 354-378)
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avg rating 4.08 — 1,273 ratings — published 391
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 225 ratings — published 2001
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 904 ratings — published 2016
Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published 2013
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,083 ratings — published 2009
Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 200 ratings — published 1984
The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740 (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 50 ratings — published 2016
The First Crusade: The Call from the East (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,244 ratings — published 2011
History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 117 ratings — published 1889
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.60 — 30 ratings — published 1993
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,199 ratings — published 1985
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,299 ratings — published 2005
The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 120 ratings — published 1992
Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 168 ratings — published 2007
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,341 ratings — published 1776
The Byzantines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 121 ratings — published 2006
The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 29 ratings — published 1987
The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 62 ratings — published 1983
The Wars of Justinian (Hackett Classics)
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avg rating 4.26 — 72 ratings — published 550
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,495 ratings — published 2007
Byzantium and Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 44 ratings — published 1988
“Rufinus was an orator and a lawyer, a master of civil administration and agenda. It was because of him that the Eastern Empire—Byzantium—became a bureaucracy for a thousand years; and lived on because its administration had become too intricate to die—though there are those who say that its death was concealed in a sea of paper for that one thousand years. The heritage of Rufinus was the first and longest-enduring paper Empire.
It is not accidental that in the tenure of Rufinus as Master of Offices, the duplication of written copies was first brought about. This was not on the order of carbon paper used at the instant of writing; it was wet-process copies made from a finished piece. The process is a detail, however; in the true sense Rufinus was the inventor of carbon copies. Shorthand was then five hundred years old, but Rufinus was the inventor of an improved form of shorthand.
It is believed that certain clerks of his appointing are still shuffling papers at the same desks. The paper world he set up was self-perpetuating.”
― The Fall of Rome
It is not accidental that in the tenure of Rufinus as Master of Offices, the duplication of written copies was first brought about. This was not on the order of carbon paper used at the instant of writing; it was wet-process copies made from a finished piece. The process is a detail, however; in the true sense Rufinus was the inventor of carbon copies. Shorthand was then five hundred years old, but Rufinus was the inventor of an improved form of shorthand.
It is believed that certain clerks of his appointing are still shuffling papers at the same desks. The paper world he set up was self-perpetuating.”
― The Fall of Rome
“Δέκα ζωές, αν είχα, θα σου τις προσέφερα όλες δικές σου Ελένη...Σ' αγάπησα με όλη τη δύναμη του μυαλού, της ψυχής και της καρδιάς μου''.”
― Το χειρόγραφο της Παλαιολογίνας
― Το χειρόγραφο της Παλαιολογίνας
