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Byzantium was one of the greatest civilisations the world has ever seen. Judith Herrin tells its extraordinary story afresh, exploring aspects familiar and unfamiliar, from the glorious church of Hagia Sophia to the secret of Greek Fire, from iconoclasm to eunuchs, from the historian Anna Komnene to the humble fork.;List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Introduction : a different history of Byzantium -- I. FOUNDATIONS OF BYZANTIUM -- 1. The city of Constantine -- 2. Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom -- 3. The East Roman Empire -- 4. Greek Orthodoxy -- 5. The church of Hagia Sophia -- 6. The Ravenna Mosaics -- 7. Roman law -- II. THE TRANSITION FROM ANCIENT TO MEDIEVAL -- 8. The bulwark against Islam -- 9. Icons, a new Christian art form -- 10. Iconoclasm and icon veneration -- 11. A literate and articulate society -- 12. Saints Cyril and Methodios, 'apostles to the Slavs' -- III. BYZANTIUM BECOMES A MEDIEVAL STATE -- 13. Greek fire -- 14. The Byzantine economy -- 15. Eunuchs -- 16. The imperial court -- 17. Imperial children, 'born in the purple' -- 18. Mount Athos -- 19. Venice and the fork -- 20. Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' -- 21. Eleventh-century crisis -- 22.

Who reads Women in Purple : Rulers of Medieval Byzantium?

Author

Herrin, Judith

Publisher

Penguin Publishing

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691095004

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography

Rating

3.81 / 5 (81 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14