- Preface
- Byzantium and Constantinople the Peerless Capital
- Constantine to Arcadius - Barbarian Influence
- Theodosius II to Justinian I - Reorganization
- Justinian I
- Justinian's Successors - Weakness and Decay
- The Onset and Repulse of Iran - the coming of Islam
- The Warrior Heracliads
- Destruction of the Work of the Heracliads
- The Repulse of Islam
- The Iconoclasts
- The Naval and Military Systems
- Irene's Successors to Michael III
- The Early Macedonians - Part 1
- The Early Macedonians - Part 2
- The Great Conquerors - Part 1
- The Great Conquerors - Part 2
- The Age of Women
- The Coming of the Turks
- The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 1
- The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 2
- The Angeloi - the Traitor's Stroke
- Epilogue - The Death Agony
- Byzantine Society - the Empire's Place in History
A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it eventually fell. While sometimes describing the experience of the everyday people, he mainly focuses on the wars and policies of Byzantine emperors. (Summary by Elsie Selwyn)
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