Byzantium: Greatness and Decline
Rutgers University Press | 1957 | English | 390 pages | PDF | 42.6 MB

The Byzantine Empire was one of man's great achievements. It endured for a thousand years, and the influence of its art and institutions upon the modern world has been far greater than is commonly supposed. Its history has tended to be neglected and misinterpreted, although it is "the greatest, most active, and most enduring political organism that the world has yet seen." Byzantium: Greatness and Decline is a survey of the Empire as a human organization, an analysis of its institutions, modes of life, and forms of art, and a synthesis of its accomplishments. As an introduction to Byzantine civilization it is without a peer