The Byzantines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226097923)

For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine?

Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world. Paupers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, bureaucrats, clerics, emperors, and saints--all are vividly and authentically presented in the context of ordinary Byzantine life. No comparable volume exists that so fascinatingly recovers from the past the men and women of Byzantium, their culture and their lifeways, and their strikingly modern worldview.

Author: Guglielmo Cavallo
ISBN-10: 0226097927
ISBN-13: 9780226097923
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1997
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.05w x 0.71d