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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,592 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,519 ratings — published 550
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,978 ratings — published 1988
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,183 ratings — published 1995
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,606 ratings — published 2005
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,326 ratings — published 1991
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,351 ratings — published 1148
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 581 ratings — published 1078
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,135 ratings — published 2007
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,608 ratings — published 1965
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.39 — 798 ratings — published 1956
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,703 ratings — published 1997
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.10 — 893 ratings — published 2004
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.25 — 283 ratings — published 1997
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.87 — 953 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.97 — 652 ratings — published 2009
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,061 ratings — published 1938
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.57 — 406 ratings — published 2023
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.21 — 582 ratings — published 2017
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500 to 1492 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 62 ratings — published 2009
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,574 ratings — published 2007
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.39 — 181 ratings — published 2014
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.93 — 58 ratings — published 2003
Belisarius: The Last Roman General (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.83 — 387 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.87 — 70 ratings — published 1995
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.26 — 848 ratings — published 2023
A History of Byzantium (Blackwell History of the Ancient World)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.93 — 300 ratings — published 2005
The End of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.01 — 87 ratings — published 2011
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.27 — 37 ratings — published 2007
The Byzantine Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 158 ratings — published 2013
Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 14,661 ratings — published 2000
Byzantium and the Crusades (Crusader Worlds)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 144 ratings — published 2003
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204 (Warfare and History)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.22 — 59 ratings — published 1993
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.34 — 132 ratings — published 2019
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 356 ratings — published 2017
Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2010
The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.70 — 56 ratings — published 2002
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.21 — 43 ratings — published 2004
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,024 ratings — published 1971
The Bearkeeper's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.95 — 545 ratings — published 1987
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.84 — 135 ratings — published 1980
History of the Wars, Books III and IV: (Vandalic Wars)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.22 — 94 ratings — published 550
History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Persian War)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 240 ratings — published 550
The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,485 ratings — published 2013
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.93 — 247 ratings — published 2001
Byzantine Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.05 — 172 ratings — published 1933
The Oxford History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.97 — 346 ratings — published 2002
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,544 ratings — published 1998
Baudolino: A Medieval Literary Adventure of History, Myth, and Invention in Byzantine Realms (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.81 — 26,028 ratings — published 2000
The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.18 — 128 ratings — published 1992
“...the Byzantine style, which so few care for to-day, but which moves me because these tall, emaciated angels and saints seem to have less relation to the world about us than to an abstract pattern of flowing lines that suggest an imagination absorbed in the contemplation of Eternity.”
― The Tables of the Law
― The Tables of the Law
