A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire

This chronology provides a very full listing of the main dynastic, military and political events in Byzantine history from CE274 up to CE1507. The volume is undoubtedly a very useful reference work, a very welcome resource that will preclude the hunting of names and events in the general histories and encyclopedias of the Byzantine Empire. It also embraces political developments in Italy, the wider Middle East, the Caucasus region and Russia, a welcome addition that locates Byzantium as a world empire and will make the work useful to scholars in those fields. This is supplemented by lists of the Byzantine...