Obolensky Dimitri. The Byzantine Commonwealth. Eastern Europe, 500-1453

Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0631235124 ISBN13: 9780631235125. This book is a concise narrative of Byzantine history from the time of Constantine the Great (AD 306) to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Argues that Byzantium was important in its own right but also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern society. Uses the chronological...

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-17857-9. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emperors and battles and instead recounts the empire’s extraordinary history by focusing each chronological chapter on an archetypal figure, family, place, or event. Harris’s action-packed introduction presents a...

Oxford University Press: 2009 - 1056 p. — ISBN: 0199252467 The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading authorities on all important aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies offers using the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth towards...

Harvard University Press, 2009. — 498 p. — ISBN: 9780674035195 In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable...

Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 1210 p. — ISBN: 9780521832311. Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled ‘emperors of the Romans’. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves....

University of Wisconsin Press, 1952 - p.p. 1-374. This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its...