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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
For a thousand years, an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. An audacious and resilient but now little known society, it combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilizatio ...Show more
Ravenna : Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
$27.00 AUD
Category: European
A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and barbarian culture. Winner of the 2020 Duff Cooper Prize In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young ...Show more
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
$50.00 AUD
Category: European
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imperial government in Milan, the young Emperor Honorius made the momentous decision to move his capital to a small, easy defendable city in the Po estuary - Ravenna. From then until 751 AD, Ravenna was firs ...Show more
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