Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)
… to Byzantium , Herrin relates a story of two builders coming to her office after passing it daily to ask her what … I found myself flying through the pages, feeling very accomplished as I finished each short chapter. This division … The Transition from Ancient to Medieval, Byzantium Becomes a Medieval State, and Varieties of Byzantium) and then …