Basil Ii And The Governance Of Empire (976-1025)

Fellow and Praelector in Medieval History Catherine Holmes
Oxford University Press (UK)
9780199279685
0-19-927968-3

This is the first book-length study in English of the Byzantine emperor Basil II, the "Bulgar-slayer." Basil presided over a Byzantium which was the superpower of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle.

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East in the century before the Crusades. Catherine Holmes peels away the layers of later interpretations to reveal an empire that was governed by a potent mixture of subtle persuasion and brute force.