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A History of the Byzantine State and Society

A History of the Byzantine State and Society

by Warren T. Treadgold
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/1997

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This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in a.d. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became Byzantium from the western Roman Empire, and ends in 1461, when the last Byzantine outposts fell to the Ottoman Turks. Spanning twelve centuries and three continents, the Byzantine Empire linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping and transmitting Greek, Roman, and Christian traditions including the Greek classics, Roman law, and Christian theology that remain vigorous today, not only in Eastern Europe and the Middle East but throughout Western civilization. Though in its politics Byzantium often resembled a third-world dictatorship, it has never yet been matched in maintaining a single state for so long, over a wide area inhabited by heterogeneous peoples.
ISBN:
9780804726306
9780804726306
Category:
European history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-1997
Language:
English
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
1044
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x56mm
Weight:
1.41kg

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