Everyday Life in Byzantium by Rice, Tamara Talbot - 1987

U. S: Barnes & Noble, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Helen Nixon Fairfield. Type: Hardback Barnes & Noble 1987 Edition. Hardcover and Vintage Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Black half-cloth w/bright gilt titles, pale blue paper-wrapped boards with sunned strip along upper and lower edge of front cover. Over 100 illustrations related to the text--drawings based on original sources and photographs vividly potray the life, work and religion of the Byzantines. The Christian heirs of pagan Rome, the Byzantines flourished for over a thousand years, from AD 330 when Constantine proclaimed Byzantium the capital of the Roman Empire, renaming it Constantinople, to the sack of the city by the Turks in 1453. Too those who think of Roman civilization as being obliterated by the barbarians during the "Dark Ages", this portrayal of the Byzantine Empire will come as a revelation. A sophisticated society. The Vintage Jacket is illustrated with 14th century mosaic, Basilica San Marco, Venice. 240 pages with Chronology of Byzantium Emperors, Further Reading List and Index. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 1987, Barnes & Noble, USA