Sign in with Facebook
139 books
—
42 voters
Byzantium Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,299
Byzantium: The Early Centuries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,906 ratings — published 1988
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,919 ratings — published 2007
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,398 ratings — published 550
The Alexiad (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,305 ratings — published 1148
A Short History of Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,626 ratings — published 1997
Byzantium: The Decline and Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,145 ratings — published 1995
Byzantium: The Apogee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,276 ratings — published 1991
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,436 ratings — published 2009
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.86 — 934 ratings — published 2006
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,168 ratings — published 2005
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 31 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.02 — 563 ratings — published 1078
The Fall of Constantinople 1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,551 ratings — published 1965
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 AD to the First Crusade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.24 — 489 ratings — published 2017
History of the Byzantine State (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.40 — 773 ratings — published 1956
A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.27 — 274 ratings — published 1997
The Lost World of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.16 — 479 ratings — published 2015
Byzantium (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,408 ratings — published 1996
The Oxford History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.97 — 336 ratings — published 2002
The Byzantine Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.02 — 150 ratings — published 2013
Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.08 — 171 ratings — published 2007
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,515 ratings — published 2007
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.98 — 640 ratings — published 2009
A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.07 — 335 ratings — published 2017
The Byzantine Republic: People and Power in New Rome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.38 — 159 ratings — published 2014
Byzantium and the Crusades (Crusader Worlds)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.29 — 132 ratings — published 2003
Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.92 — 234 ratings — published 2001
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.61 — 314 ratings — published 2023
The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.34 — 101 ratings — published 1972
Count Belisarius (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,928 ratings — published 1938
The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.02 — 92 ratings — published 1996
The World of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,905 ratings — published 1971
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.35 — 124 ratings — published 2019
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.82 — 131 ratings — published 1980
Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.93 — 54 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 3.67 — 123 ratings — published 2006
The Bearkeeper's Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.95 — 532 ratings — published 1987
Sailing to Sarantium (The Sarantine Mosaic, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.20 — 16,874 ratings — published 1998
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.89 — 56 ratings — published 2003
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.26 — 646 ratings — published
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,154 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 — 118 ratings — published 2014
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.08 — 876 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 Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.40 — 53 ratings — published 2000
The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1453 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.27 — 108 ratings — published 1971
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantium)
avg rating 3.91 — 938 ratings — published 2016
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Greek Culture in the Roman World)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.27 — 37 ratings — published 2007
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as byzantium)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,171 ratings — published 1997
“So we grew up with mythic dead
To spoon upon midwestern bread
And spread old gods' bright marmalade
To slake in peanut-butter shade,
Pretending there beneath our sky
That it was Aphrodite's thigh...
While by the porch-rail calm and bold
His words pure wisdom, stare pure gold
My grandfather, a myth indeed,
Did all of Plato supersede
While Grandmama in rockingchair
Sewed up the raveled sleeve of care
Crocheted cool snowflakes rare and bright
To winter us on summer night.
And uncles, gathered with their smokes
Emitted wisdoms masked as jokes,
And aunts as wise as Delphic maids
Dispensed prothetic lemonades
To boys knelt there as acolytes
To Grecian porch on summer nights;
Then went to bed, there to repent
The evils of the innocent;
The gnat-sins sizzling in their ears
Said, through the nights and through the years
Not Illinois nor Waukegan
But blither sky and blither sun.
Though mediocre all our Fates
And Mayor not as bright as Yeats
Yet still we knew ourselves. The sum?
Byzantium.
Byzantium.”
― Dandelion Wine
To spoon upon midwestern bread
And spread old gods' bright marmalade
To slake in peanut-butter shade,
Pretending there beneath our sky
That it was Aphrodite's thigh...
While by the porch-rail calm and bold
His words pure wisdom, stare pure gold
My grandfather, a myth indeed,
Did all of Plato supersede
While Grandmama in rockingchair
Sewed up the raveled sleeve of care
Crocheted cool snowflakes rare and bright
To winter us on summer night.
And uncles, gathered with their smokes
Emitted wisdoms masked as jokes,
And aunts as wise as Delphic maids
Dispensed prothetic lemonades
To boys knelt there as acolytes
To Grecian porch on summer nights;
Then went to bed, there to repent
The evils of the innocent;
The gnat-sins sizzling in their ears
Said, through the nights and through the years
Not Illinois nor Waukegan
But blither sky and blither sun.
Though mediocre all our Fates
And Mayor not as bright as Yeats
Yet still we knew ourselves. The sum?
Byzantium.
Byzantium.”
― Dandelion Wine
“I will return to the books... Constantine is right; books are more merciful towards each other than people.”
― AZ
― AZ
