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1. 1. History Of The Byzantine State

   

   A comprehensive survey of the Byzantine Empire from its late Roman roots to the fall of Constantinople, tracing political transformations alongside economic structures, military institutions, and church–state relations. It highlights pivotal crises and reforms—such as iconoclasm, the theme system, and the Komnenian revival—while examining diplomacy and conflict with neighbors from the Slavs and Arabs to the Crusaders and Ottomans. Based on rigorous scholarship, it synthesizes administrative evolution, social change, and cultural achievements to explain the empire’s resilience and eventual decline.

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2. 2. Byzantinische Geschichte 324 1453.

   324–1453

   

   A concise scholarly survey of the Byzantine Empire from the early fourth century to 1453, tracing the political, social, economic and military development of a state that preserved and transformed Roman institutions under Christianity. It examines the imperial bureaucracy and court, the evolution of military and administrative systems (including the themes), relations with neighboring peoples and powers, and achievements in law, theology and the arts, while assessing the internal tensions and external pressures that contributed to the empire’s gradual decline and ultimate fall.

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