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Byzantium into Europe: The Story of Byzantium as the First Europe (326-1204 A.D.) and Its Further Contribution till 1453 A.D.

By Jack Lindsay

Book information

Publisher
the Bodley Head
Year
1952
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35647917 bytes)
Pages
485\251
Topic
History
DPI
300
Orientation
landscape
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-11-19 01:29:10

Description

An original dialectical Marxist interpretation placing Byzantium within universal history.In this ambitious survey of Byzantine history - covering institutional developments, events, religious conflicts, and art - Lindsay asks about the world-historical achievements of the Eastern Roman Empire and its contribution to the passage from antiquity to feudalism on the European path towards modernity. The book is refreshing in its dialectical mode of analysis. It earned a favourable assessment from the doyen of Byzantine studies in France Rodolphe Guilland, while the Times Literary Supplement ran an anonymous review of it that proposed to ban all Communists from teaching history (which view the editors then defended from the letters sent in protest).

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