Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries, A. D. 610-1071
Peter Charanis|Romilly J. H. Jenkins
Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966. Focusing on the middle period in Byzantium's eleven-century history as its most imperial era, Jenkins considers a number of events that changed course world history: repulse Saracens from gates Constantinople 678 718, reign Michael III, which marked greatness Middle Byzantium, resolution 843 quarrel over images, conversion Bulgar Khan Boris to Christianity, splendid revival painting, culminated apse mosaic St Sophia.
The American Historical Review