A History of the Byzantine State and Society

by Warren Treadgold

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in A.D. 285, when the emperor Diocletian separated what became Byzantium from the western Roman Empire, and ends in 1461, when the last Byzantine outposts fell to the Ottoman Turks.

Spanning twelve centuries and three continents, the Byzantine Empire linked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804726302
• ISBN13: 9780804726306
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 1044 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"