From Rome to Byzantium (Record no. 4923)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781135166724
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Source of stock number/acquisition Taylor & Francis
Terms of availability GBP 51.99
Form of issue BB
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Michael Grant
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title From Rome to Byzantium
Remainder of title The Fifth Century AD
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Routledge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 20150304
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 224 p
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Expansion of summary note Byzantium was dismissed by Gibbon, in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and his Victorian successors as a decadent, dark, oriental culture, given up to intrigue, forbidden pleasure and refined cruelty. This great empire, founded by Constantine as the seat of power in the East began to flourish in the fifth century AD, after the fall of Rome, yet its culture and history have been neglected by scholars in comparison to the privileging of interest in the Western and Roman Empire. Michael Grant's latest book aims to compensate for that neglect and to provide an insight into the nature of the Byzantine Empire in the fifth century; the prevalence of Christianity, the enormity and strangeness of the landscape of Asia Minor; and the history of invasion prior to the genesis of the empire. Michael Grant's narrative is lucid and colourful as always, lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps. He successfully provides an examination of a comparatively unexplored area and constructs the history of an empire which rivals the former richness and diversity of a now fallen Rome.

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