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Byzantine Books
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,449 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,408 ratings — published 550
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,908 ratings — published 1988
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,147 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 4.26 — 7,206 ratings — published 2005
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,280 ratings — published 1991
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,313 ratings — published 1148
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,944 ratings — published 2007
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 563 ratings — published 1078
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,558 ratings — published 1965
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.40 — 778 ratings — published 1956
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 876 ratings — published 2004
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.27 — 274 ratings — published 1997
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,630 ratings — published 1997
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.86 — 936 ratings — published 2006
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,928 ratings — published 1938
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500 to 1492 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.29 — 58 ratings — published 2009
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,522 ratings — published 2007
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.98 — 641 ratings — published 2009
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.38 — 159 ratings — published 2014
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.89 — 56 ratings — published 2003
Belisarius: The Last Roman General (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.85 — 379 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.88 — 69 ratings — published 1995
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.24 — 492 ratings — published 2017
A History of Byzantium (Blackwell History of the Ancient World)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.94 — 297 ratings — published 2005
The End of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 86 ratings — published 2011
Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,263 ratings — published 2000
Byzantium and the Crusades (Crusader Worlds)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.29 — 132 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
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.60 — 320 ratings — published 2023
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.35 — 125 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 — 337 ratings — published 2017
Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2010
The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.70 — 54 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 — 1,914 ratings — published 1971
The Bearkeeper's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.95 — 530 ratings — published 1987
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.82 — 131 ratings — published 1980
History of the Wars, Books III and IV: (Vandalic Wars)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.22 — 92 ratings — published 550
History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Persian War)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 226 ratings — published 550
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.27 — 37 ratings — published 2007
The Byzantine Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.03 — 151 ratings — published 2013
Byzantine Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.04 — 164 ratings — published 1933
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,924 ratings — published 1998
The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.16 — 123 ratings — published 1992
Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.48 — 42 ratings — published 1992
The Last Byzantine Renaissance (The Wiles Lectures)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.94 — 71 ratings — published 1970
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.26 — 661 ratings — published
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.33 — 102 ratings — published 1972
Byzantium and Venice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.23 — 44 ratings — published 1988
“...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








