Название: Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade
Автор: Anthony Kaldellis
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190253223
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 440
Размер: 57,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well.