A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it eventually fell. While sometimes describing the experience of the everyday people, he mainly focuses on the wars and policies of Byzantine emperors.
By : Edward Foord
00 - Preface
01 - Byzantium and Constantinople the Peerless Capital
02 - Constantine to Arcadius - Barbarian Influence
03 - Theodosius II to Justinian I - Reorganization
04 - Justinian I
05 - Justinian's Successors - Weakness and Decay
06 - The Onset and Repulse of Iran - the coming of Islam
07 - The Warrior Heracliads
08 - Destruction of the Work of the Heracliads
09 - The Repulse of Islam
10 - The Iconoclasts
11 - The Naval and Military Systems
12 - Irene's Successors to Michael III
13 - The Early Macedonians - Part 1
14 - The Early Macedonians - Part 2
15 - The Great Conquerors - Part 1
16 - The Great Conquerors - Part 2
17 - The Age of Women
18 - The Coming of the Turks
19 - The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 1
20 - The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 2
21 - The Angeloi - the Traitor's Stroke
22 - Epilogue - The Death Agony
23 - Byzantine Society - the Empire's Place in History
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