Dreaming Ages History

Byzantium: reading list

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Books to read by lamplight after the episode.

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire

Judith Herrin (2007; Princeton University Press).

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The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium

Anthony Kaldellis (Oxford University Press, 2023).

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The Byzantines

Averil Cameron (Blackwell, 2006).

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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

Lars Brownworth (Crown, 2009).

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The Fall of Constantinople 1453

Steven Runciman (Cambridge University Press, 1965).

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The Alexiad

Anna Komnene, trans. E. R. A. Sewter, revised by Peter Frankopan (Penguin Classics, 2009).

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