Publisher:
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1996).
Seller ID: 9370gcs
Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxv + 477 pp. Fine in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: This book is an excellent, up-to-date reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Wellillustrated with original maps, it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the crisis of the seventh century, and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Cliphate's decline opened up new perspectives for Christian power in t... View More...
