History of the Byzantine State

New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1969. Revised. Large purple octavo, xl, 624 pages, b&w illustrations, 25 cm. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head, reading crease to lightly sunned spine, light soiling to fore-edges and covers, publisher sticker to rear cover, faint page edge fraying to half-title and title page, pages are bright, binding is tight, else near fine(-). Paperback. ISBN: 0813511984

Succinctly traces the Byzantine Empire's thousand-year course with emphasis on political development and social, aesthetic, economic and ecclesiastical factors. Series: Rutgers Byzantine. Contents: The early Byzantine state: its development and characteristics (324-610) -- The struggle for existence and the revival of the Byzantine state (610-711) -- The age of the iconoclast crisis (711-843) -- The golden age of the Byzantine empire (843-1025) -- Government by the civil aristocracy of the capital (1025-81) -- The rule of the military aristocracy (1081-1204) -- Latin rule and the restoration of the Byzantine empire (1204-82) -- The decline and fall of the Byzantine empire (1282-1453). Byzantine Empire -- History.