A History of the Byzantine State and Society

Rating:
Summary: Well-written and very good!
Review: This is a very good text to use, especially for anyone with very little background in the Byzantine empire. However, be warned, the author is a specialist in the Byzantine military, so he does go on in painstaking detail about the military, and not enough about the social and intellectual development of Constantinople. But as I have said, it is well-written and very informative.