Constantinople : capital of Byzantium /
Publisher's description -- Synopsis: This book examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political whilst reconstructs the awe-inspiring city in its heyday of 1200. Description: In the early Middle Ages, the greatest city in Europe was not Paris, London or Berlin but Con...
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London ; New York, NY :
Hambledon Continuum,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- The city of wonders
- Founding fathers
- Defence
- Palaces and power
- Churches and monasteries
- 'Two thirds of the wealth of this world'
- Democracy
- The beginning of the end
- The ruin of Byzantine Constantinople
- Epilogue: Byzantine Constantinople today.