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Byzantium. The Amazing Life of a Medieval Empire

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A unique book by Professor Judith Herrin of King's College London is devoted to the thousand-year history of the Eastern Roman Empire - from the foundation of Constantinople to its capture by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The authoritative researcher offers a new look at the confrontation between the Byzantine Empire and the Western world, the split of the Christian church and the reasons for the fall of the empire. The author paints vivid portraits of emperors and empresses, military usurpers and spiritual leaders, talented scientists and famous courtesans. A separate chapter is devoted to eunuchs - a special influential caste that made big politics. A subtle connoisseur of the era, Judith Herrin recreates pictures of the everyday life of the imperial court: the glitter of gold, the luxury of clothing, complex rituals, exquisite entertainment of those "born in purple". The author pays special attention to the spiritual side of the empire's life, explains the reasons for the return from iconoclasm to icon veneration, and once again proves that it was Byzantium, the first Christian empire to take spiritual feat as its basis, that was able to contain Islamic expansion and prevent the conquest of Europe.
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