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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,612 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,988 ratings — published 1988
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,559 ratings — published 550
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,187 ratings — published 1995
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,690 ratings — published 2005
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,332 ratings — published 1991
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,357 ratings — published 1148
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,171 ratings — published 2007
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 583 ratings — published 1078
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,613 ratings — published 1965
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.39 — 801 ratings — published 1956
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,715 ratings — published 1997
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.09 — 897 ratings — published 2004
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.25 — 284 ratings — published 1997
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.87 — 956 ratings — published 2006
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.97 — 653 ratings — published 2009
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,091 ratings — published 1938
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.56 — 419 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 — 598 ratings — published 2017
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500 to 1492 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.29 — 63 ratings — published 2009
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,582 ratings — published 2007
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.38 — 185 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 3.84 — 389 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 — 876 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 4.29 — 38 ratings — published 2007
The Byzantine Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.02 — 159 ratings — published 2013
The Oxford History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.97 — 348 ratings — published 2002
Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.31 — 14,749 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 4.21 — 58 ratings — published 1993
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.33 — 133 ratings — published 2019
The World of Byzantium (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.04 — 477 ratings — published 2001
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 4.06 — 363 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 3.73 — 55 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 — 2,050 ratings — published 1971
The Bearkeeper's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.95 — 549 ratings — published 1987
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.85 — 136 ratings — published 1980
History of the Wars, Books III and IV: (Vandalic Wars)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.22 — 96 ratings — published 550
History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Persian War)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.07 — 241 ratings — published 550
The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,494 ratings — published 2013
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 3.94 — 250 ratings — published 2001
Byzantine Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.06 — 173 ratings — published 1933
The Byzantine Economy (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.03 — 39 ratings — published 2007
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,687 ratings — published 1998
“...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
