Byzantium : the apogee

Author(s)

• Norwich, John Julius

Bibliographic Information

Byzantium : the apogee

John Julius Norwich

（Penguin books）

Penguin, 1993

Note

Originally published: [London] : Viking, 1991

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-[375]) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In Byzantium: The Early Centuries John Julius Norwich told the epic tale of the Roman Empire's second capital up to Christmas Day AD 800 - when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as a rival emperor. This second volume of his magnificent history covers the following three centuries. In it he continues his compelling chronicle up to the coronation of the heroic Alexius Comnenus in 1081. The other two volumes in the trilogy, Byzantium: The Early Centuries and Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, are also published in Penguin.

Table of Contents

• Krum (800-14)
• the return of iconoclasm (814-29)
• Theophilus (829-42)
• the images restored (842-56)
• of patriarchs and plots (857-66)
• double murder (866-7)
• Basil the Macedonian (867-86)
• Leo the Wise (886-912)
• the rise of Romanus (912-20)
• the gentle usurper (920-48)
• the scholar emperor (945-63)
• the white death of the Saracens (963-9)
• John Tzimisces (969-76)
• the young Basil (976-89) the Bulgar-Slayer (989-1025)
• the decline begins (1025-41)
• the end of the Paphlagonians (1041-2)
• Constantine Monomachus and the schism (1042-55)
• prelude to catastrophe (1055-9)
• Manzikert (1059-81). List of emperors
• list of Muslim sultans
• list of patriarchs
• list of popes.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA21019044
• ISBN:
  • 0140114483
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 389 p., [16] of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DF553
  • NDC8 : 239.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Byzantine Empire -- History -- 527-1081
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00474814