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Byzantium Books
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Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,954 ratings — published 1988
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,051 ratings — published 2007
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,471 ratings — published 550
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,334 ratings — published 1148
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,677 ratings — published 1997
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,171 ratings — published 1995
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,311 ratings — published 1991
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,529 ratings — published 2009
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.86 — 945 ratings — published 2006
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,430 ratings — published 2005
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 31 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.02 — 572 ratings — published 1078
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.21 — 549 ratings — published 2017
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,582 ratings — published 1965
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.40 — 788 ratings — published 1956
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.26 — 276 ratings — published 1997
The Lost World of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.18 — 505 ratings — published 2015
The Oxford History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.96 — 339 ratings — published 2002
Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,466 ratings — published 1996
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.97 — 646 ratings — published 2009
The Byzantine Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.02 — 156 ratings — published 2013
Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.09 — 176 ratings — published 2007
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.09 — 346 ratings — published 2017
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,553 ratings — published 2007
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.93 — 243 ratings — published 2001
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.56 — 362 ratings — published 2023
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.39 — 165 ratings — published 2014
Byzantium and the Crusades (Crusader Worlds)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.30 — 141 ratings — published 2003
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.26 — 755 ratings — published 2023
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,970 ratings — published 1971
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.34 — 103 ratings — published 1972
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,002 ratings — published 1938
The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.02 — 92 ratings — published 1996
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.33 — 128 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.84 — 134 ratings — published 1980
Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.95 — 55 ratings — published 2013
The Byzantine Empire 1025-1204: A Political History (2nd Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.90 — 48 ratings — published 1984
The Byzantines (The Peoples of Europe)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.68 — 126 ratings — published 2006
The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.40 — 53 ratings — published 2000
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.93 — 58 ratings — published 2003
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,267 ratings — published 2016
The Byzantine Revival, 780-842 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.31 — 36 ratings — published 1988
Byzantine Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.57 — 121 ratings — published 2014
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.33 — 4,270 ratings — published 1997
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.09 — 885 ratings — published 2004
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204 (Warfare and History)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.22 — 59 ratings — published 1993
The Bearkeeper's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.95 — 539 ratings — published 1987
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,261 ratings — published 1998
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.21 — 43 ratings — published 2004
The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.25 — 110 ratings — published 1971
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.91 — 978 ratings — published 2016
“Your letters are birds. Caught in your net, stirred from their flight... Their wings are our written down speech. Landing and takeoff is conducted according to the rules. The rules you call grammar, but it is nothing other than geometry.”
― AZ
― AZ
“I am alone as the pearl is alone in its shell. I have withdrawn into myself, but the sea – life hits me and forces me to open. It opens my womb, takes out my round pearl – soul, and strings it on a necklace. I cannot breathe under its weight. It holds all my dear, lost pearls...”
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