Then I entered an entirely new and exotic realm — the eastern Roman Empire, a dominion that survived the fall of Rome in 476 by almost a thousand years. The Byzantine Empire lasted until 1453 ...

The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople in 1204.

He writes: "My aim was to produce a clear account of the long history of the Byzantine Empire based on the latest research in ... The text is enhanced by five clearly drawn maps and 30 well-chosen ...