This book is the latest in a number of histories of Byzantium that have been published recently with a general audience in mind, and it is one of the most readable of its kind. It offers a grand narrative from the foundation to the fall of Constantinople (330-1453 AD) that focuses on emperors, politics, and war, and is liberally sprinkled will well-chosen anecdotes.

Jonathan Harris. The Lost World of Byzantium. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Anthony Kaldellis, The Ohio State University