Byzantium:
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. first U.S. edition. hardcover. 8vo 186pp. from front flap: "Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise, and authoritative history of Imperial Rome's successor: the Byzantine Empire. Byzantium was a Greek polis on the Bosphorus that gained importance in A.D. 324 when it was refounded by Constantine the Great and named Constantinople. One of the preeminent cities of the Middle Ages, Constantinople played a vital role in the emergence of the medieval order in which Byzantium, western Christendom, and Islam became three distinct civilizations." Book VG+: clean, square, tight, unmarked / DJ VG: mild age/soil wear near spine, not clipped. Item #2417
ISBN: 0312284292
#02482.
Price: $9.00