Byzantium

This three-volume narrative history follows the Byzantine Empire from Constantine's fourth-century foundation of a New Rome on the Bosporus to the Ottoman capture of Constantinople in 1453. Norwich recounts emperors, church councils, and wars with Persians, Arabs, Slavs, Crusaders, and Turks, giving most space to court intrigue, dynastic succession, and military crisis. The volumes run from the early centuries through the Macedonian and Comnenian high points to the shrinking late empire. The work is a political and military chronicle for the general reader, not a specialised economic or art-historical monograph.

Bound in design blocked orange cloth. 18 pages of colour plates, bound in design blocked dark red cloth. Vol. The Decline and Fall, bound in design blocked dark brown cloth. Map endpapers. Black three-volume slipcase titled in gold.