From Rome to Byzantium: Fifth Century AD (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for From Rome to Byzantium Michael Grant's narrative is lucid and colourful, lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. He successfully provides an examination of a comparatively unexplored area and constructs the history of the empire.
Full description- Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
- Published: 01 April 1998
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: European History | Asian History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700
- ISBN 13: 9780415147538 ISBN 10: 0415147530
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Full description for From Rome to Byzantium
Byzantium was dismissed by Gibbon, in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,and his Victorian successors as a decadent, dark, oriental culture, given up to intrigue, forbidden pleasure and refined cruelty. This great empire, founded by Constantine as the seat of power in the East began to flourish in the fifth century AD, after the fall of Rome, yet its culture and history have been neglected by scholars in comparison to the privileging of interest in the Western and Roman Empire. Michael Grant's latest book aims to compensate for that neglect and to provide an insight into the nature of the Byzantine Empire in the fifth century; the prevalence of Christianity, the enormity and strangeness of the landscape of Asia Minor; and the history of invasion prior to the genesis of the empire. Michael Grant's narrative is lucid and colourful as always, lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. He successfully provides an examination of a comparatively unexplored area and constructs the history of an empire which rivals the former richness and diversity of a now fallen Rome.
