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Byzantine Empire Books
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,459 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,908 ratings — published 1988
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,950 ratings — published 2007
The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,418 ratings — published 2013
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,228 ratings — published 2005
Anna of Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,508 ratings — published 1999
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,281 ratings — published 1991
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,149 ratings — published 1995
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 4.23 — 495 ratings — published 2017
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,633 ratings — published 1997
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.40 — 781 ratings — published 1956
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (Empress Theodora, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,517 ratings — published 2010
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.98 — 642 ratings — published 2009
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.02 — 562 ratings — published 1078
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,524 ratings — published 2007
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,315 ratings — published 1148
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,937 ratings — published 1938
Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,418 ratings — published 1996
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,409 ratings — published 550
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,561 ratings — published 1965
The Sheen on the Silk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,856 ratings — published 2010
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 669 ratings — published
The Wars of Justinian (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.28 — 75 ratings — published 550
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 — 5,607 ratings — published 2012
The Byzantines (The Peoples of Europe)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.67 — 123 ratings — published 2006
Strategos: Born in the Borderlands (Strategos, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.05 — 625 ratings — published 2011
One for Sorrow (John the Eunuch #1)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.43 — 404 ratings — published 1999
Imperial Purple (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.94 — 328 ratings — published 1988
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.53 — 32 ratings — published 1993
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 4.08 — 338 ratings — published 2017
Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.96 — 53 ratings — published 1998
De Administrando Imperio (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 68 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 3.94 — 48 ratings — published 2016
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
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 267,877 ratings — published 2021
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 125 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 — 530 ratings — published 1987
Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.36 — 202 ratings — published 1984
A Place Called Armageddon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.88 — 778 ratings — published 2011
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.27 — 274 ratings — published 1997
The First Crusade: The Call from the East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,309 ratings — published 2011
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,939 ratings — published 1998
Byzantine Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 164 ratings — published 1933
Belisarius: The Last Roman General (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.84 — 380 ratings — published 2009
The Purple Shroud (Empress Theodora, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.66 — 396 ratings — published 2012
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500 to 1492 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.29 — 58 ratings — published 2009
A Flame in Byzantium (Atta Olivia Clemens, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.87 — 554 ratings — published 1988
The Mosaic of Shadows (Demetrios Askiates, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.57 — 581 ratings — published 2003
Justinian (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.81 — 238 ratings — published 1998
“And should there exist someone endowed with the beauty of a statue and the lyrical eloquence of a nightingale in song, gifted, moreover, with ready wit, then the wearer of the crown can neither sleep nor rest, but his sleep is interrupted, his voluptuousness suppressed, his appetite for pleasure lost, and he is filled with grave apprehensions; with wicked tongue he curses the creator nature for fashioning others suitable to rule and for not making him the first and last and the fairest of men.”
― O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniates
― O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniates
“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
