Δύο μεγάλοι συγγραφείς, ο μεγάλος Βυζαντινολόγος του !9ου αιώνα Γουστάβος Σλουμπερζέ και ο Γαλλος ιστορικός, αυθεντία στην Βυζαντινή τέχνη και ιστορία, Κάρολος Ντήλ, περιγράφουν με λεπτομέρειες τις σημαντικότερες ιστορίες από τις μεγαύτερες μορφές του Βυζαντίου, σε ένα ευανάγνωστο βιβλίο, απαραίτητο σε κάθε λάτρη της Βυζαντινής ιστορίας.
Περιεχόμενα
Πολιορκεία της Κωνσταντινούπολης από Άβαρες - Η νλικη των Βυζαντινών και ο Ακάθιστος Ύμνος.
Η άλωση της Θεσσαλονίκης - Η πειρατεία στην Κρήτη απο αραβικές φυλές.
Οι μάζες των Ρώσων και των Βυζαντινών στα Βαλκάνια.
Οι Ρώσοι ασπάζονται τη Χριστιανική θρησκεία.
Η ορμητική πορεία του Βυζαντινού ιππικού.
Η άφιξη του Βασίλειου του Βουλγαροκτόνου στην Αθήνα.
Η επιστροφή των νικητών και η θριαμβευτική υποδοχή.
Ο βασιλιάς Αμαλάρχος ο Ά επισκέπτεται την Κωνσταντινούπολη.
Ο πόλεμος των Γενοβέζων με τους Κύπριους.
Τα βυζαντινά όπλα και το υγρό πυρ.
Ο σουλτάνος μωάμεθ ο ΄Β και τα κανόνια του.
Ο Κωνσταντίνος ΙΑ' ο Δραγάσης, ο τελευταίος Αυτοκράτορας του Βυζαντίου.
Ο μωάμεθ ο ΄Β στην Αγιά Σοφιά.
Η άλωση της Τραπεζούντας.
Η διαδικασία της ακολουθίας ενός Αυτοκράτορα στις εκστρατείες.
Μια μέρα απο τη ζωή μιας Βυζαντινής αρχόντισσας.
Οι Αυτοκράτορες του Βυζαντίου και η ζωή τους.
Η Θεοδώρα.
Ο Βασίλειος ο Ά και η άνοδος του στον Αυτοκρατορικό θρόνο.
Léon Gustave Schlumberger (17 October 1844 – 9 May 1929) was a French historian and numismatist who specialised in the era of the crusades and the Byzantine Empire. His Numismatique de l'Orient Latin (1878–82) is still considered the principal work on the coinage of the crusades. He was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society in 1903. A large portion of his extensive Crusader coin collection is housed in the Cabinet des Médailles a department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.
He was born in Guebwiller, Alsace, then part of France but later annexed to Germany. From 1863 he studied medicine in Paris. During the Franco-Prussian War, he served on the French side as a medic. In 1871 he returned to Paris, and was awarded a doctorate in 1872 for a thesis on the respiratory tract. After this he travelled extensively in North Africa, Syria, Asia Minor, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Italy (visiting also Germany) and then turned to research into the history of the Crusader states and the Byzantine Empire. He was elected president of the Societé des Antiquaires de France. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. In 1903 he was awarded the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society.
He was a friend of Edith Wharton, who described him as looking like 'a descendent of one of the Gauls on the arch of Titus'.[4] He also corresponded extensively with the Greek writer Penelope Delta, which correspondence influenced several of her historical novels set in Byzantine times.
He was an ultra-conservative, an active supporter of the anti-Dreyfusard movement. With Edgar Degas, Jean-Louis Forain and Jules Lemaître, he stormed out of the salon of the hostess Genevieve Straus when her friend Joseph Reinach pointed out Dreyfus' innocence. In his memoirs, he wrote of his old friend Charles Haas (a model for Marcel Proust's character Swann): "The delightful Charles Haas, the most likeable and glittering socialite, the best of friends, had nothing Jewish about him except his origins and was not afflicted, as far as I know, with any of the faults of his race, which makes him an exception virtually unique." Following his failure to be elected a member of the Académie française in 1908, Proust, who disliked him, described him as a 'disabused pachyderm'. In his memoirs, Schlumberger, who received a passing mention in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, described the novelist as 'bizarre' and described his books as 'admired by some, and quite incomprehensible to others, including myself'.
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres has created an award in his name, the Gustave Schlumberger Prize. Winners have included Joshua Prawer and Denys Pringle.
7 Ekim 1844 Guebwiller, Alsace - 9 Mayıs 1929 Paris. Çok eski bir sanayici aileye mensuptu. Tıp eğitimi gördü. Bizans arkeolojisine merak sardı. Bizans ve Latin Doğu incelemelerine, katkısı ve hacmi bakımından önem taşıyan eserler bıraktı. Çeşitli zamanlarda İstanbul’da bulundu. Ahmet Vefik Paşa, Osman Hamdi Bey, Fuat Paşa’nın oğlu İzzet Paşa, Mithat Paşa ile tanışıyordu. Yaptığı araştırmalar Hıristiyan baronların kutsal topraklara yalnızca dinî adanmışlık duygusuyla yöneldiklerini söyleyen efsâneyi sarstı. Baronlar gündelik çıkarlarıyla fazlasıyla meşgullerdi; bu çıkarlar gerektirdiğinde Müslümanlarla işbirliğine giriyorlardı. Schlumberger kendi adına para bastıran baronların bu sikkelerin üzerinde türbanlı ve emir sıfatıyla yer aldıklarını, paranın arka yüzünde ise Kur’an’dan alınan ifadeler bulunduğunu saptadı. Tarih yazıcılığının gerek yeni verilerin kullanıma girmesi, gerekse bakış açılarının değişmesi sonucu başdöndürücü bir hızla değiştiği günümüzde Schlumberger’in bilimsel değerini hâlâ koruyan başlıca eseri nümizmatik ile ilgilidir: Sigillographie de l’Empire Byzantin (Bizans İmparatorluğu’nda Mühürler, 1884).