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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 18 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,573 ratings — published 2009
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,970 ratings — published 1988
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,100 ratings — published 2007
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,543 ratings — published 2005
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,325 ratings — published 1991
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,182 ratings — published 1995
The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,476 ratings — published 2013
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,692 ratings — published 1997
Anna of Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,536 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 — 568 ratings — published 2017
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.02 — 576 ratings — published 1078
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,345 ratings — published 1148
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.40 — 795 ratings — published 1956
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.97 — 650 ratings — published 2009
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,499 ratings — published 550
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,597 ratings — published 1965
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore (Empress Theodora, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,549 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 — 2,570 ratings — published 2007
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,041 ratings — published 1938
Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,489 ratings — published 1996
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 794 ratings — published 2023
The Byzantines (The Peoples of Europe)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.68 — 126 ratings — published 2006
One for Sorrow (John the Eunuch #1)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.43 — 410 ratings — published 1999
The Sheen on the Silk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,876 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 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 4.26 — 280 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 — 5,878 ratings — published 2012
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,446 ratings — published 1998
Strategos: Born in the Borderlands (Strategos, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.05 — 632 ratings — published 2011
Imperial Purple (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.94 — 332 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 4.08 — 349 ratings — published 2017
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.56 — 393 ratings — published 2023
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 — 70 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: A Medieval Literary Adventure of History, Myth, and Invention in Byzantine Realms (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.81 — 25,887 ratings — published 2000
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,001 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 4.39 — 11,155 ratings — published 2021
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.24 — 282,290 ratings — published 2021
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 129 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 — 541 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 — 211 ratings — published 1984
A Place Called Armageddon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.88 — 793 ratings — published 2011
The First Crusade: The Call from the East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,387 ratings — published 2011
Byzantine Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 4.05 — 171 ratings — published 1933
Belisarius: The Last Roman General (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.83 — 387 ratings — published 2009
The Purple Shroud (Empress Theodora, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as byzantine-empire)
avg rating 3.65 — 405 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
