Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: Nodes, Networks, and Spheres

by Jonathan Shepard, Peter Frankopan

768 pages, Hardcover

Published October 13, 2025

About the author

Jonathan Shepard is an English historian specializing in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus. He specializes in diplomatic and archaeological history of the early Kievan period. Shepard received his doctorate in 1973 from Oxford University and was a lecturer in Russian History at the University of Cambridge. Among other works, he is co-author (with Simon Franklin) of The Emergence of Rus 750–1200 (1996), and editor of The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (2008).