Table of Contents

List of Figures.List of Maps.List of Boxes.Preface.Introduction.1 The Crisis of the Third Century.2 The Revival under Diocletian.3 The Age of Constantine the Great.4 The Fourth Century: Constantius II to Theodosios I.5 The Fifth Century.6 The Age of Justinian.7 The Byzantine "Dark Ages": Late Fourth to Seventh Centuries.8 The Isaurian Dynasty and Iconoclasm.9 Continued Struggle over Ikons.10 The Beginnings of the Macedonian Dynasty.11 The Apogee of Byzantine Power.12 The Komnenoi.13 The Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.14 The Beginnings of Decline.15 The End of the Empire.16 Byzantium after the Fall of the City.Glossary.General Bibliography.A Selection of Primary Sources in English Translation.List of Byzantine Emperors.Index

About the Author

Timothy E. Gregory is Professor of Byzantine History at Ohio State University where he is also Adjunct Professor of Anthropology. He is the author of Isthmia (1993), The Corinthia in the Roman Period (1993), and Vox Populi (1979) and editor of the textbook Exploring the European Past: Texts and Images (2002), among other publications. He also has considerable experience in online teaching. He has served on the editorial board of journals such as Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies and the American Journal of Archaeology. He has extensive archaeological fieldwork experience in Greece and Cyprus and is the director of the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia.