Byzantium, the Roman empire in the eastern Mediterranean, dominated the political and religious face of Europe for over a thousand years. In this introduction Rowena Loverance traces the history of the empire from the founding of its capital Constantinople in AD330 to its capture by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
El texto de carácter científico y divulgativo constituye una histoira breve y fundamental del arte del imperio bizantino todo a lo largo de su desarrollo.