The Byzantines

Averil Cameron

Wiley, Jan 8, 2007 - History - 296 pages

Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize

This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines.

• This volume brings Byzantium – often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world – to the forefront of European history
• Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium
• Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps

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The Byzantines is a good little book that is limited by its format and the author's lack of ambition for the book. As part of a series on different "nationalities", the book must try somehow to take ...

About the author

Averil Cameron is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at Oxford and the Warden of Keble College, and was recently awarded a DBE. Her publications include Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium (1996) and Eusebius, Life of Constantine (ed. with Stuart G. Hall, 1999), and she is a co-editor of volumes XII, XIII and XIV of the Cambridge Ancient History.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Byzantines; Volume 16 of The Peoples of Europe
• Author: Averil Cameron
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 2007
• ISBN: 0631202625, 9780631202622
• Length: 296 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / General