The English Byzantine scholar Judith Herrin, an international doyenne of her subject, one day conceived the plan to make the whole story of the thousand-year-old medieval empire, to which she has devoted a lifetime of research, comprehensible and vivid to non-specialists. The result is this book, a magnificent narrative of the splendour and misery of Byzantine history, grouped around the many interesting thematic nodes, which are themselves arranged in a large chronological timeline.
Judith Herrin first tells of the basic constants and historical germs of the Byzantine Empire: the city of Constantinople, Roman law and its further development, post-ancient Greek culture, Christian Orthodoxy, then of the episodes, high points and low points in the history of the Empire at the zenith of its development of power and splendour, and finally of the tribulations, defeats and catastrophes until its end, until the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Herrin, Judith
Title
Byzanz. Die erstaunliche Geschichte eines mittelalterlichen Imperiums
Details
Paperback, 6 maps. 416 pp.
State
new
Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag GmbH Siemensstr. 32 71254 Ditzingen Deutschland
