About this book
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. (Summary by Elsie Selwyn)
Chapters (23)
1Byzantium and Constantinople the Peerless Capital
2Constantine to Arcadius - Barbarian Influence
3Theodosius II to Justinian I - Reorganization
4Justinian I
5Justinian's Successors - Weakness and Decay
6The Onset and Repulse of Iran - the coming of Islam
7The Warrior Heracliads
8Destruction of the Work of the Heracliads
9The Repulse of Islam
10The Iconoclasts
11The Naval and Military Systems
12Irene's Successors to Michael III
13The Early Macedonians - Part 1
14The Early Macedonians - Part 2
15The Great Conquerors - Part 1
16The Great Conquerors - Part 2
17The Age of Women
18The Coming of the Turks
19The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 1
20The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 2
21The Angeloi - the Traitor's Stroke
22Epilogue - The Death Agony
23Byzantine Society - the Empire's Place in History
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