A History of the Eastern Roman Empire: From the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I.

A History of the Eastern Roman Empire From the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I. (a.D. 802-867).

by Bury, J. B.

Description: Reprint of the 1912. Oversized octavo. Book xv, 530 p. London, Macmillan and Co., 1912. John Bagnell Bury was born in county Monaghan Ireland and studied at Trinity College Dublin, holding academic posts there and at Cambridge. He was both a classicist and a byzantinist and, for much of his career, a strong believer in the 19th century ideas of rationalism and progress. Bury was without doubt one of the most outstanding Byzantinists of his age. He was a scholar of great range and unusual ... read more