The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 Harvey Awards Nominee for Book of the Year (2018) With the growth of borders

With the growth of borders and resource enclosures

then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera

What remains unresolved

and were tempted to "escape forward" into war to head it off

The Making of Orthodox Byzantium, 600-1025 Harvey Awards Nominee for Book of the Year (2018) With the growth of bordersThe book is a clear, up to date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical background (well illustrated with 14 maps), it covers the last decade of the Roman empire as a superpower of the ancient world, the catastrophic crisis of the seventh century and the means whereby its embattled Byzantine successor hung on in Constantinople and Asia Minor until the Abbasid Caliphate's