History of the Byzantine Empire. In 3 volumes

Academic Project Publishing House has published a new reprint of the classic work of the Russian Byzantine historian and archaeologist, Academician F. I. Uspensky (1845-1928), "The History of the Byzantine Empire", on which more than one generation of Byzantine scholars grew up. This fundamental and comprehensive study does not lose its relevance for the most diverse fields of humanitarian science even in our time. The books are distinguished not only by the author's brilliant mastery of primary sources, which he often quotes in order to achieve adequacy in the reader's understanding of the most complex problems of the development of the described historical events, but at the same time by a bright and lucid language, devoid of the usual pedantry and dryness of scientific and historical treatises.
Book 1. History of the Byzantine Empire. Periods I-III., 588 p.
The first book of the famous trilogy by Acad. F. I. Ouspensky, devoted to the description of the millennial history of the Byzantine Empire, the ideology and the very spirit of which after the death of Byzantium in the XV century. inherited Russia, copying many features of Byzantism in the modern post-Soviet era. The book deals with the first periods of the early history of the formation of the Byzantine Empire - from the time of the foundation of its capital by Constantine the Great (330 AD) to the time of the beginning (717 AD) of the iconoclastic period. The author did not limit himself only to the historiography of events filled with ceaseless wars with numerous European and Asian neighbors of the new Eastern Empire, internal bloody strife, treason and intrigue. Much attention is paid to the illumination of objective and subjective causes of the events, including economic and religious-moral character, for which the author has carried out a huge research work on the study of poorly preserved manuscript material of the "dark ages" of the Middle Ages.
Book 2. History of the Byzantine Empire. Periods IV-V, 737 pp.
The book deals with the fourth - Iconoclastic (717-867) and the fifth - Macedonian (867-1057) periods of the history of the Byzantine Empire. The author did not limit himself only to the historiography of events filled with ceaseless wars with numerous European and Asian neighbors, internal bloody strife, treason and intrigue. Much attention is paid by them to the illumination of objective and subjective causes of the events, including religious and moral character, and the latter led not only to a long internal political crisis, but also to the aggravation of relations with the Roman Church. When presenting the events of the Macedonian period, special attention should be paid to the chapters devoted to the activities of the Slavic enlighteners Cyril and Methodius, as well as the relationship between ancient Russia and Byzantium.
Book 3. History of the Byzantine Empire. Periods VI-VIII, 697 p.
In the book, belonging to the famous Russian Byzantine scholar Acad. F. I. Uspensky, considers the sixth (1057-1185), seventh (1185-1204) and final eighth (1204-1453) periods of the Byzantine Empire. The author, with his inherent brilliant knowledge of primary sources and historiological literature known at his time, created a scrupulously detailed factual and psychological epic panorama of the tragic events of the four Crusades, the last of which ended with the devastation of Constantinople in 1204; the life of the Empire during half a century in a dismembered state; the restoration of its former power in the time of the Palaiologi; the subsequent decline and death under the blows of the Ottoman Turks. Much attention is paid by the author to the coverage of objective and subjective reasons for the events, including religious and moral character, on which the ancient discord between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches cast its fatal shadow.
It is addressed to young researchers and students of humanitarian universities, as well as to all readers interested in the history of the states and peoples of the Orthodox world.