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Byzantium : the apogee / John Julius Norwich

This second volume of a trilogy chronicles the history of the Byzantine Empire from the coronation of Charlemagne in AD 800 to the accession of Alexius Comnenus in 1081. It details the political and social shifts of the Roman Empire's eastern capital.
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