Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium

by Harris, Jonathan

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Hambledon Continuum, 2007. Hardcover with DJ. First edition As New with bumps to the tips and a small crease to a number of pages at the rear. 289 pages; 8 pages of b&w illustrations plus three maps; 6.5 x 9.5 inches. During the early Middle Ages, travellers to the East returned with stories of a place called Miklagarth, a city so vast that its churches, palaces and monasteries covered the land and so rich that its ruler could scatter bagfuls of gold among his astonished guests. This was no legend or tall tale for Miklagarth was a real place. Better known as Constantinople, it was the capital city of the empire of Byzantium and a major political force in the eastern Mediterranean for over a thousand years. Jonathan Harris examines the intriguing interaction between the spiritual and the political, the mythical and the actual and reconstructs the awe-inspiring city in its heyday in 1200. FREE SHIPPING within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging.