Byzantium, A World Civilization

Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou

Edited by Henry Maguire

    This book introduces the great civilization of Byzantium and shows the centrality of Byzantium's role in world history. It also celebrates the founding of one of the major institutions devoted to the study of that civilization, the Byzantine Center at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C.
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Angeliki E. Laiou is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University and a former Director of Dumbarton Oaks.

Henry Maguire is a former Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and Professor of Art History at Johns Hopkins University