Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
(Part of the Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture Series)
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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0190253223
ISBN13:9780190253226
Release Date:July 2017
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:440 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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