Byzantium: The Apogee
- ISBN-10
- 0394537793
- ISBN-13
- 9780394537795
- Series
- Byzantium
- Category
- Religion / Christianity / Orthodox
- Pages
- 389
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- John Julius Norwich
Description
Describes Byzantium's battles against foreign threats, its internal conflicts, the return of iconoclasm in the ninth century, and the struggles between Anatolia's military aristocracy and the eunuchs of the capital
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