Byzantine Matters

A renowned historian examines the neglected story of Byzantium and what it can teach us about Western history: a "feisty and provocative manifesto" (Times Literary Supplement, UK).

For many of us, Byzantium remains "byzantine"—obscure, marginal, difficult. Despite the efforts of recent historians, prejudice still skews our understanding of the Byzantine civilization, often reducing it to a poor relation of Rome and the rest of the classical world. In this book, Averil Cameron presents an or...