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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,605 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,161 ratings — published 2007
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,987 ratings — published 1988
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,666 ratings — published 2005
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,329 ratings — published 1991
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,186 ratings — published 1995
The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,491 ratings — published 2013
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,713 ratings — published 1997
Anna of Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,547 ratings — published 1999
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.21 — 592 ratings — published 2017
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.02 — 582 ratings — published 1078
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,356 ratings — published 1148
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.39 — 801 ratings — published 1956
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.97 — 653 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,535 ratings — published 550
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,613 ratings — published 1965
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (Empress Theodora, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,557 ratings — published 2010
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,578 ratings — published 2007
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,084 ratings — published 1938
Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,520 ratings — published 1996
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 873 ratings — published 2023
The Byzantines (The Peoples of Europe)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.68 — 127 ratings — published 2006
One for Sorrow (John the Eunuch #1)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.43 — 412 ratings — published 1999
The Sheen on the Silk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,884 ratings — published 2010
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.52 — 31 ratings — published 1993
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.56 — 414 ratings — published 2023
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.24 — 286,061 ratings — published 2021
The Wars of Justinian (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.31 — 78 ratings — published 550
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 284 ratings — published 1997
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,974 ratings — published 2012
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,642 ratings — published 1998
Strategos: Born in the Borderlands (Strategos, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.05 — 633 ratings — published 2011
Imperial Purple (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.94 — 333 ratings — published 1988
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.07 — 360 ratings — published 2017
Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.94 — 54 ratings — published 1998
De Administrando Imperio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 71 ratings — published 950
Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.98 — 51 ratings — published 2016
Baudolino (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.81 — 26,128 ratings — published 2000
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,046 ratings — published 1971
Serving Byzantium's Emperors: The Courtly Life and Career of Michael Attaleiates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published 2019
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,481 ratings — published 2021
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.34 — 133 ratings — published 2019
The Emperor's Winding Sheet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.68 — 84 ratings — published 1974
The Bearkeeper's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.95 — 547 ratings — published 1987
Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.37 — 216 ratings — published 1984
A Place Called Armageddon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.89 — 797 ratings — published 2011
The First Crusade: The Call from the East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,424 ratings — published 2011
Byzantine Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 173 ratings — published 1933
Belisarius: The Last Roman General (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.84 — 388 ratings — published 2009
The Purple Shroud (Empress Theodora, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.65 — 407 ratings — published 2012
“Wars against the barbarians, with all their attendant trials and tribulations he was prepared to face himself, but the entire administration of affairs, the choice of civil magistrates, the accounts of the imperial revenues and expenditure he left to his mother. At this point the reader may well censure him for transferring the government of the Empire to the gynaeconitis, but had he known this woman’s spirit, her surpassing virtue, intelligence and energy, his reproaches would soon have turned to admiration. For my grandmother had an exceptional grasp of public affairs, with a genius for organization and government; she was capable, in fact, of managing not only the Roman Empire, but every other empire under the sun as well.”
― The Alexiad
― The Alexiad
“Here’s her story, a tale of the bear-keeper’s daughter and the Empire: what happened to her and what happened because of her.”
― The Eagle and the Swan
― The Eagle and the Swan
