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DescriptionThe Lost World of Byzantium – October 27th 2015 by Jonathan Harris (Author) {BinanGotit}  Format: epub / mobi / pdf Product Details Hardcover: 280 pages Publisher: Yale University Press (October 27th 2015) Language: English ISBN-10: 0300178573 ISBN-13: 978-0300178579 For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead recounts the empire’s extraordinary history by focusing each chronological chapter on an archetypal figure, family, place, or event. Harris’s action-packed introduction presents a civilization rich in contrasts, combining orthodox Christianity with paganism, and classical Greek learning with Roman power. Frequently assailed by numerous armies—including those of Islam—Byzantium nonetheless survived and even flourished by dint of its somewhat unorthodox foreign policy and its sumptuous art and architecture, which helped to embed a deep sense of Byzantine identity in its people. Enormously engaging and utilizing a wealth of sources to cover all major aspects of the empire’s social, political, military, religious, cultural, and artistic history, Harris’s study illuminates the very heart of Byzantine civilization and explores its remarkable and lasting influence on its neighbors and on the modern world. Editorial Review “Harris has succeeded triumphantly in producing a fresh and highly readable account of this extraordinary institution…An acute eye for detail is sustained throughout the book: Harris never fails to find the best story to focus readers’ attention on each chapter’s central subject. More fundamentally the book is beautifully constructed on the back of highly intelligent narrative choices… he triumphantly overcomes the limits of his brief to take the reader to the heart of what it meant to be Byzantine.”— Peter Heather, BBC History  Sharing Widget |