Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries, AD 610-1071Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966. Focusing on the middle period in Byzantium's eleven-century history as its most imperial era, Jenkins considers a number of events that changed the course of world history: the repulse of the Saracens from the gates of Constantinople in 678 and 718, the reign of Michael III, which marked the greatness of Middle Byzantium, the resolution in 843 of the quarrel over images, the conversion of the Bulgar Khan Boris to Christianity, and a splendid revival of painting, which culminated in the apse mosaic of St Sophia. |
Contents
HERACLIUS | 2 |
THE SARACEN CONQUESTS | 30 |
THE SUCCESSORS OF HERACLIUS | 36 |
S THE EARLY ISAURIANS | 58 |
ICONOCLASM | 74 |
CONSTANTINE VI AND IRENE | 90 |
HAEC DUO IMPERIA | 105 |
NICEPHORUS I AND MICHAEL I | 117 |
MICHAEL II AND THEOPHILUS | 140 |
MICHAEL III | 153 |
IGNATIUS PHOTIUS AND POPE NICHOLAS I | 168 |
BASIL THE MACEDONIAN | 183 |
IS LEO THE WISE | 198 |
THE FOURTH MARRIAGE | 212 |
ALEXANDER AND THE REGENCY 91220 | 227 |
ROMANUS I | 241 |
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Anatolia Arab Arethas Armenian army Bardas Bardas Phocas Basil Basil II Basil the Macedonian Bréhier Bulgaria Bulgars Byzan Byzantine Empire Byzantium caliph capital Cedrenus century Cerularius Charles Christ Christian church command Constans Constantine Constantine Porphyrogenitus Constantine vi Constantinople Cont council Crete crown Danube death divine doubt east eastern ecclesiastical emir Emperor Michael empress exarchate fact father force frontier Greek Hellas Heraclius Holy iconoclast Ignatius images imperial important Irene Italy John Justinian Lewis Liudprand Macedonian marriage matter Michael III military monks monophysite murder never Nicephorus Nicephorus II Nicholas once organisation orthodox Ostrogorsky Otto palace papal patriarch peace Pechenegs Phocas Photius political pope Porphyrogenitus province Psellus reason reign religious revolt Roman Romanus II Rome Saracen scarcely Sclerus seems siege Slavs sovereign spiritual success Symeon Syria Tarasius territory Theodora Theoph Theophanes Theophilus Thessalonica Thrace throne tion troops Vasiliev victory western whole Zimiskes