2002/04/01 by Wolfram Brandes · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Byzantine Studies and History #Byzantine architecture #Ninth #Byzantine studies #Empire #State (computer science) #Conscience #Classics #History #Ancient history #Art #Law #Political science #Computer science
paper · doi:10.1515/byzs.2002.716
openalex publication_date 2002/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract To review a book that deals with 1000 years of Byzantine history is just as bold an undertaking as the writing of the book itself. Treadgold (henceforth T.) took this challenge on, and we should be grateful to him for doing so. The reviewer admits that he is not informed equally well over all periods of the history of the Byzantine empire – there is probably no-one on the planet who could with a clear conscience assert that they were. In this respect the reviewer admires T. for his lack of reserve in expressing his views on problems and periods of Byzantine history with which he is clearly less familiar than with those of the eighth and ninth centuries.