| Author: | Guglielmo Cavallo |
| Translation: | Thomas Dunlap, Teresa Lavender Fagan, Charles Lambert |
| Editor: | Evelyne Patlagean, Alexander Kazhdan, Peter Schreiner, Robert Browning, Alice-Mary Talbot, Nicolas Oikonomides, Vera von Falkenhausen, Andre Guillou, Michael McCormick, Cyril Mango |
| Origin: | Chicago and London |
| Introduction: | Guglielmo Cavallo |
| Publisher: | Chicago University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780226097923 |
| Edition number: | 1st edition |
| Publication year: | 2000 |
| First edition: | 1997 |
| Dimensions: | 15.3x22.7 |
| Pages: | 296 |
| Location: | 21Δ |
For more than a thousand years, Byzantium flourished at the crossroads of the Eastern and Western worlds. But who were the people of the first modern civilized state? What features distinguished them from earlier civilizations, and what cultural characteristics, despite their multi-ethnic origins, made them uniquely Byzantine?
Through a series of remarkably detailed composite portraits, an international collection of distinguished scholars has created a startlingly clear vision of the Byzantines and their social world. Paupers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, bureaucrats, clerics, emperors, and saints—all are vividly and authentically presented in the context of ordinary Byzantine life. No comparable volume exists that so fascinatingly recovers from the past the men and women of Byzantium, their culture and their lifeways, and their strikingly modern worldview.