History of the Byzantine State and Society

"A vivid story of Byzantium''s existence over the span of 1,100 years . . . . this work may well become the standard English-language history of Byzantium." —Library JournalThis is the first comprehensive and up-to-date history of Byzantium to appear in almost sixty years, and the first ever to cover both the Byzantine state and Byzantine society. It begins in A.D. 285, when the emperor Diocletian...