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Byzantium by Judith Herrin
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
For a thousand years, Byzantium was a byword for imperial power, gold and international trade. This extraordinary but now little known empire combined paganism and classical Greek and Roman learning with orthodox Christianity, and for centuries held back the armies of Islam, making possible the transiti ...Show more
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilizatio ...Show more
Ravenna : Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young ...Show more
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