Forgotten Power: Byzantium, Bulwark of Christianity

It is often forgotten that the period of Byzantine power is one of the major epochs in world history. The Empire was for eleven centuries the center of Christendom, mistress of the Mediterranean, and the symbol for all the rest of the world of splendor, wealth, and cultural ascendancy. Its period spans from the ancient classical world of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance, and throughout the medieval era it remained a source of constancy—and this despite a history of continual ...