Judith Herrin
Allen Lane, 392pp
The 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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