The Byzantines

by Guglielmo Cavallo

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226097927
• ISBN13: 9780226097923
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"