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Byzantium: The surprising life of a medieval empire

Judith Herrin
Allen Lane, 392pp

ByzantiumThe term 'Byzantine', as Herrin observes, is often used as shorthand for complexity and duplicity. This is not totally underserved, but there is more to Byzantine history than that. Many Byzantine rulers, military leaders and scholars were brilliant. Herrin shows that the negative western image of Byzantium arose out of conflict over ...

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