The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 Condition:Good And her fight is just

And her fight is just beginning

Marina Bay Sins is Humphreys at his satirical best

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The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 Condition:Good And her fight is justThe book is a clear, up to date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background (well illustrated with 14 maps), it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the catastrophic crisis of the seventh century and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Caliphate's