Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes

by Deno John Geanakoplos

Book Overview

Deno John Geanakoplos here offers a prodigious collection of source materials on the Byzantine church, society, and civilization (many translated for the first time into English), arranged chronologically and topically, and knit together with an analytical historical commentary. His selections from Byzantine writers as well as from more obscure documents and chronicles in Latin, Arabic, Slavic, Italian, Armenian, and French reflect all the diversity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226284611
• ISBN13: 9780226284613
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Original source material

This is an excellently compiled collection of translated original source material regarding the Byzantine Empire. Here you can read about what the Byzantines thought about Byzantine. It's got wonderful sections about relations with the West, the Turks, Culture and Life, Politics, Christianity, etc. If you have any interest in Byzantine, you've got to get this book. Great for not only the serious scholar but the general reader as well. Don't rely on historians to translate history for you; Do it yourself