The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 Condition:Good The authors

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Marina Bay Sins is Humphreys at his satirical best

The seventeen stories in this loosely-connected collection push the limits of form and trope

how do they stand up to analysis and to the evidence

The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 Condition:Good The authorsThe book is a clear, up to date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background (well illustrated with 14 maps), it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the catastrophic crisis of the seventh century and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Caliphate's