Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries Ad 610-1070

By Romilly James Heald Jenkins

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802066674
• ISBN13: 9780802066671
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Good, but not perfect

I read this book about five years ago, so it's not fresh in my memory. As I recall, it does give a good account and analysis of the major events that occurred within the time period it covers. Aside from an underlying anti-Christian bias that can sometimes be perceived, it does give balanced and even-handed coverage. All things considered, I recommend it to anyone who wants to seriously study the Byzantine Empire.