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Byzantium

The Imperial Centuries AD 610-1070

Romilly Jenkins author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:1st May '87

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Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966.

Focusing on the middle period in Byzantium's eleven-century history as its most imperial era, Jenkins considers a number of events that changed the course of world history: the repulse of the Saracens from the gates of Constantinople in 678 and 718, the reign of Michael III, which marked the greatness of Middle Byzantium, the resolution in 843 of the quarrel over images, the conversion of the Bulgar Khan Boris to Christianity, and a splendid revival of painting, which culminated in the apse mosaic of St Sophia.

ISBN: 9780802066671

Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 28mm

Weight: 612g

400 pages