Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era c 680–850: a history. By Leslie Brubaker and John Haldon. 247mm. Pp xxiv+942, 71 b&w ills, 7 maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN 9780521430937. £100 (hbk).

摘要

The aim of the authors is to examine the ‘transfernfrom Late Roman to Byzantine structures’ duringnIconoclasm, as part of the development ofnthe cultural identity of the empire. They ask,n‘How did the Empire move from a situation ofncrisis in the 660s to a position of ‘‘safety’’ in then840s?’