00671nam a2200193Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000190009624500760011526000370019130000270022836500060025552001100026165000300037165000300040165000290043165000170046020260702155026.0260702s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9780141015156  223a949.502 HER  aHerrin, Judith 0aByzantium :bthe surprising life of a medieval empire /cJudith Herrin.  aLondon :bPenguin Books ,c2008.  axxiv, 416 p. ;c20 cm.  b0  aA thematic history defense of Byzantium as a dynamic, influential cultural bastion of the medieval world.  aByzantine Empire History.  aChurch history Byzantium.  aCivilization, Byzantine.  aMiddle Ages.