Further Reading Recommended by Herrin's Byzantium

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Suggested reading for additional information and sources of quotes.
1
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
por Eusebius
4,263 membros
27 críticas
½ 3.7
2
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
por Edward Gibbon
3,263 membros
40 críticas
½ 4.3
3
The Secret History
por Procopius
1,562 membros
28 críticas
½ 3.7
4
Chronicles of the Crusades
por Jean de Joinville
1,442 membros
8 críticas
½ 3.6
5
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
por William Dalrymple
1,372 membros
20 críticas
½ 4.3
6
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
por Peter Heather
1,308 membros
27 críticas
4.1
7
The Towers of Trebizond
por Rose Macaulay
1,270 membros
37 críticas
3.8
8
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
por Roger Crowley
1,156 membros
22 críticas
4
9
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
por Anna Comnena
829 membros
10 críticas
½ 3.7
10
The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 200-1000 AD
por Peter Brown
826 membros
10 críticas
3.9
11
King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway
por Snorri Sturluson
706 membros
5 críticas
3.8
12
Mohammed and Charlemagne
por Henri Pirenne
669 membros
10 críticas
3.9
13
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
por Michael Psellus
528 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.7
14
Three Treatises on the Divine Images (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics Series)
por St. John of Damascus
520 membros
1 crítica
3.8
15
The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
por Norbert Elias
481 membros
7 críticas
4.2
16
The Sicilian Vespers, a history of the Mediterranean world in the later 13th century
por Steven Runciman
462 membros
9 críticas
4.1
17
The Birth of Purgatory
por Jacques Le Goff
357 membros
7 críticas
3.9
18
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
por Justin Marozzi
345 membros
6 críticas
½ 3.4
19
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
por Philip Mansel
325 membros
4 críticas
3.9
20
The Formation of Christendom
por Judith Herrin
311 membros
5 críticas
½ 3.6
21
The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation
por Richard Fletcher
258 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.3
22
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
por Chris Wickham
235 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.4
23
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
por David Abulafia
223 membros
2 críticas
½ 3.7
24
Women in Purple
por Judith Herrin
223 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.6
25
The First Crusade : the Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials
por Edward Peters
214 membros
3.9
26
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
por Helen C. Evans
193 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.7
27
The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261
por Helen C. Evans
180 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.6
28
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
por Marina Warner
180 membros
½ 3.6
29
Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art
por Hans Belting
179 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.7
30
St Germanus of Constantinople on the Divine Liturgy
por Saint I, Patriarch of Constantinople Germanus
166 membros
4
31
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power
por Colin Imber
146 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.5
32
The Old Testament: The Authorized King James Version of 1611
por Everyman's Library
112 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.3
33
Mistra: Byzantine Capital of the Peloponnese
por Steven Runciman
112 membros
2 críticas
3.9
34
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3-Volume Set)
por Alexander P. Kazhdan
108 membros
4.8
35
Byzantium and the Crusades
por Jonathan Harris
104 membros
2 críticas
3.9
36
The last centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453
por Donald M. Nicol
99 membros
½ 4.7
37
The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
por Norman Russell
99 membros
4
38
Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series)
por Eusebius
88 membros
2 críticas
4
39
Byzantium: Church, Society, and Civilization Seen through Contemporary Eyes
por Deno John Geanakoplos
79 membros
½ 4.3
40
The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453: Sources and Documents
por Cyril Mango
76 membros
½ 4.3
41
History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagne
por William Edward Hartpole Lecky
74 membros
3
43
Late antique, early Christian and mediaeval art
por Meyer Schapiro
60 membros
44
Holy Image, Hallowed Ground (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
por Robert S. Nelson
59 membros
4.9
45
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
por Patricia Crone
59 membros
½ 4.5
46
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204
por John Haldon
59 membros
1 crítica
3.8
47
De Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem: The Journey of Louis the Seventh to the East
por Odo of Deuil
56 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.7
48
The Byzantines
por Guglielmo Cavallo
55 membros
½ 3.3
49
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam
por G. W. Bowersock
53 membros
1 crítica
½ 4.3
50
Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797 (Midway Reprint)
por William H. McNeill
50 membros
½ 3.5
51
The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon
por Richard Price
50 membros
52
Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations
por Donald M. Nicol
49 membros
½ 4.3
53
Procopius and the Sixth Century
por Averil Cameron
48 membros
54
Mystras - The Medieval City and Castle
por Manolis Chatzidakis
47 membros
4
55
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)
por Nadia Maria El Cheikh
47 membros
1 crítica
½ 3.5
57
Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
por A. P. Kazhdan
44 membros
1 crítica
½ 2.5
58
The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)
por Raymond Davis
44 membros
59
Chronicon Paschale 284-628
por Michael Whitby
43 membros
4
60
Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt: A Photographic Essay
por Helen C. Evans
42 membros
5
61
The Varangians of Byzantium
por Sigfús Blöndal
36 membros
1 crítica
3.1
62
The last Byzantine Renaissance
por Steven Runciman
36 membros
1 crítica
3
63
Cassiodorus: Selected Variae
por S.J.B. Barnish
35 membros
5
65
The Embassy to Constantinople and Other Works (Everyman Paperback
por Liudprand of Cremona
34 membros
½ 4.5
66
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180
por Paul Magdalino
34 membros
4
69
The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
por Paul Stephenson
32 membros
4.2
70
The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles
por Andrew Palmer
30 membros
72
The Despotate of Epiros 1267-1479: A Contribution to the History of Greece in the Middle Ages
por Donald M. Nicol
26 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.3
73
Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900
por Leslie Brubaker
24 membros
1 crítica
4
74
Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204 (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library)
por Henry Maguire
23 membros
4
76
Treasures of Mount Athos
por Athanasios A. Karakatsanis
23 membros
3
77
Byzantinoslavica
23 membros
79
Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261
por Michael Angold
21 membros
½ 3.5
82
Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976-1025) (Oxford Studies in Byzantium)
por Catherine Holmes
19 membros
1 crítica
3
85
Theoderic in Italy
por John Moorhead
19 membros
86
Digenis Akritis: The Grottaferrata and Escorial Versions (Cambridge Medieval Classics)
por Elizabeth Jeffreys
18 membros
1 crítica
5
87
Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources
por Katerina Ierodiakonou
18 membros
1 crítica
88
Abd al-Malik
por Chase Robinson
17 membros
2
89
The Economic History of Byzantium (Dumbarton Oaks Studies)
por Angeliki E. Laiou
17 membros
90
Anna Komnene and Her Times (Garland Medieval Casebooks)
por Thalia Gouma-Peterson
15 membros
4
91
The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna
por Agnellus of Ravenna
15 membros
92
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond
por Shaun Tougher
14 membros
5
93
Photius: The Bibliotheca (Selected Works)
por Photius
14 membros
½ 4.5
94
The Fall of the Byzantine Empire: A Chronicle by George Sphrantzes 1401-1477
por George Sphrantzes
14 membros
2 críticas
4
95
Decline and fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks
por Doukas
14 membros
2 críticas
3
96
Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and its Icons
por Robin Cormack
14 membros
97
Figure and Likeness: On the Limits of Representation in Byzantine Iconoclasm
por Charles Barber
14 membros
98
The Chronicle of Adam Usk 1377-1421 (Oxford Medieval Texts)
por Adam of Usk
14 membros
99
Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium
por Liz James
13 membros
1 crítica
5