Judith Herrin

Byzantium

CA$160

Byzantium is Judith Herrin’s masterful and often surprising history of a 1,000-year empire, in a Folio Society edition sumptuously illustrated with imperial treasures, plus a new introduction by the author.

Byzantium

CA$160

Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in printed and blocked cloth
Blocked slipcase
Ribbon marker

Dimensions10 inches x 6¾ inches

FontSet in Bembo Book with Baker Signet display

Pages456 pages

AuthorJudith Herrin

Illustration28 pages of colour plates
6 maps plus 21 integrated black & white images, including full-and double-page spreads

Publication Date11/10/2022

Editor's Notes

The Byzantine Empire was a world power for more than 1,000 years, from the founding of its magnificent capital, Constantinople (modern Istanbul) by Constantine the Great in 330 to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. In this sweeping history, Judith Herrin examines the life and legacy of this great civilisation that evolved out of the Roman Empire – its emperors and empresses, conquests and Crusades, desperate sieges, and importance as a bulwark between the West and the burgeoning Islamic world, making possible the ascent of modern Europe. Byzantium’s cultural glories are displayed in 32 pages of dazzling colour images, including great churches and monasteries, gold and silver work, painted and ivory icons, and vivid mosaics. In a new preface, Herrin rejoices that recent interest has taken Byzantium ‘out of its East Mediterranean corner to reveal its brilliant contributions to global civilisations’ – an ambition achieved in this fascinating introduction by a gifted scholar of late antiquity.

About the Author

Judith Herrin is professor emerita of late antique and Byzantine studies at King’s College, London, where she taught for many years after spells as a teacher and archaeologist at Princeton, Athens, Istanbul and elsewhere. She is internationally renowned for her work on Byzantine history; major publications include The Formation of Christendom (1987), a ground-breaking survey of the early centuries of the Christian ‘West’; Unrivalled Influence (2013), on the role of women in Byzantine politics; Ravenna (2020), which won the Duff Cooper Prize for 2020; and Byzantium (2007; Folio 2022). Herrin’s many awards include the Golden Cross of the Order of Honour, awarded by the President of Greece, and the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for History.

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