Category - History
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Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, ...
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Rome Resurgent: War and Empire in the Age of Justinian
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, ...
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The Middle Ages in 50 Objects
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from t...
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The Emperors of Byzantium
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of i...
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this c...
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The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experimentThe growth of cities around the world in the last two centuri...
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then ...
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The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"[A] riveting story... you owe it to yourself to pick up The Last Viking. It's that exciting, that good."—The Washington PostA rich and compellin...
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Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then ...
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The Alexiad (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In The Alexiad, Anna Komnene describes the political and military history of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, Emperor Alexios...
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Church History of Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, was a 4th-century pioneer work giving a chronological account of the development of Early Chr...
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Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /What happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who a...
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A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by ma...
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The Shields of the Empire: Eastern Roman Military Elites During the Reigns of the Emperors Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Shields of the Empire: Eastern Roman Military Elites during the Reigns of the Emperors Theodosius II, Marcian and Leo I aims to reconstruct t...
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New Rome: The Empire in the East
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A Times of London Book of the YearLonglisted for the Runciman Award“The most compelling fusion yet of narrative history with the recent findings ...
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Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth ce...
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Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle: Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Smbat Sparapet's Chronicle is a major source for the history of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Roughly three-quarters of the work consists of a s...
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Matthew of Edessa's Chronicle: Volume 3
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Matthew of Edessa's Chronicle is a valuable source for the history of the Near East in the 10th-12th centuries. Matthew's work describes the period...
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Sebeos' History: Volume 2
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Sebeos' History is a seventh century document of special importance for the study of Armenia and the Middle East in the sixth-seventh centuries. It...
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Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach e...
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Byzantine Cavalryman Vs Vandal Warrior: North Africa Ad 533-36
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Fully illustrated, this enthralling study explores how the Vandals in North Africa attempted to defend their kingdom against the resurgent Byzantin...
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Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Without the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization. Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, ...
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East Meets West
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This entirely new volume illuminates the complex intersection of western and eastern culture and civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean during t...
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