Byzantines, Paperback

Winner of the 2006 John D. Criticos Prize

This book introduces the reader to the complex history, ethnicity, and identity of the Byzantines.

• This volume brings Byzantium - often misconstrued as a vanished successor to the classical world - to the forefront of European history
• Deconstructs stereotypes surrounding Byzantium
• Beautifully illustrated with photographs and maps

About author(s):Averil Cameron is Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History at the University of Oxford and the Warden of Keble College, and was recently awarded a DBE. Her publications include Changing Cultures in Early Byzantium (1996) and Eusebius, Life of Constantine (ed. with Stuart G. Hall, 1999), and she is a co-editor of volumes XII, XIII and XIV of the Cambridge Ancient History.