Byzantium by Mango, Cyril - 2005

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Orion Publishing Group, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Phoenix. xiii 334pp hardback, illustrated, paperback . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1980.

Phoenix Giant, 1998. Book. Good. Soft cover. pictorial card covers, creased to the bottom leading corner of the front and rear covers, tightly bound and with a clean and unmarked text, 334pp.

Phoenix , 1998. Ex Library. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 334 pages, maps,

Phoenix, London, 1994. IX,334p. Paperback. Small personal library mark and name on free endpaper. There are two key themes which Prof. Mango has been developing for some time. (...) The Byzantines were first and foremost orthodox Christians. It might be thought that this world provide an excellent foundation for a national identity, but it was cut across by local loyalties. (...) The other key theme is that Byzantium remained in all aspects of its culture anchored in late antiquity 9...) and 'for a thousand years Byzantium made a virtue of arrested development' (Lewis Mumford). A great strenght of this book is to make clear that change was almost impossible, because these basic principles lay at the centre of a network of ideas, which provided logically consistent explanations of a vast range of phenomena, natural and supernatural, historical and eschatological.' (MICHAEL ANGOLD in The Classical Review (New Series), 1981, p.279-80). From the library of the late Sir Kenneth James Dover.