Byzantine Empire: Bibliography

The classic, though biased, work on Byzantine history is Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. More recent standard works are those of J. B. Bury, C. Diehl, A. A. Vasil'ev, G. Ostrogorsky, and N. H. Baynes. See also studies by J. M. Hussey (1967, 1986), R. J. H. Jenkins (1967), D. Obolensky (1971), S. Runciman (1971, 1977), M. Angold (1985), J. Herrin (1987, 2008), J. J. Norwich (1995), M. Whittow (1996), and E. N. Luttwak (2009).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• The Ebb of Power
• A Truly Eastern State
• Revival and Hellenization
• Early Centuries
• Bibliography

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