Byzantines (Peoples of Europe #13)

Averil Cameron

$43.33

Publication Date: November 1st, 2009

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell

ISBN:

9781405198332

Pages:

304

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Description

Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize

This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines.

This volume brings Byzantium - often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world - to the forefront of European history
Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium
Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps

About the Author

Averil Cameron is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of Keble College, and was recently awarded a DBE. Her publications include Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium (1996) and Eusebius, Life of Constantine (ed. with Stuart G. Hall, 1999), and she is a co-editor of volumes XII, XIII and XIV of the Cambridge Ancient History.