Further Reading Recommended by Herrin's Byzantium

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Suggested reading for additional information and sources of quotes.
1
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
by Eusebius
4,256 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
2
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
3,257 members
42 reviews
½ 4.3
3
The Secret History
by Procopius
1,559 members
28 reviews
½ 3.7
4
Chronicles of the Crusades
by Jean de Joinville
1,439 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
5
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
by William Dalrymple
1,370 members
20 reviews
½ 4.3
6
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
by Peter Heather
1,309 members
27 reviews
4.1
7
The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macaulay
1,268 members
37 reviews
3.8
8
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
by Roger Crowley
1,151 members
23 reviews
4
9
The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
by Anna Comnena
823 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
10
The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, 200-1000 AD
by Peter Brown
821 members
11 reviews
3.9
11
King Harald's Saga: Harald Hardradi of Norway
by Snorri Sturluson
704 members
5 reviews
3.8
12
Mohammed and Charlemagne
by Henri Pirenne
666 members
12 reviews
3.9
13
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus (Penguin Classics)
by Michael Psellus
527 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
15
The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
by Norbert Elias
481 members
7 reviews
4.2
17
The Birth of Purgatory
by Jacques Le Goff
356 members
7 reviews
3.9
18
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World
by Justin Marozzi
343 members
6 reviews
½ 3.4
19
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
by Philip Mansel
323 members
4 reviews
3.9
20
The Formation of Christendom
by Judith Herrin
310 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
22
Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800
by Chris Wickham
233 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
23
Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor
by David Abulafia
223 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
24
Women in Purple
by Judith Herrin
223 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
26
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
by Helen C. Evans
183 members
½ 4.7
27
The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261
by Helen C. Evans
181 members
1 review
½ 4.6
28
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
by Marina Warner
180 members
½ 3.6
29
Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art
by Hans Belting
177 members
1 review
½ 3.7
31
The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power
by Colin Imber
145 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
32
The Old Testament: The Authorized King James Version of 1611
by Everyman's Library
110 members
1 review
½ 4.3
33
Mistra: Byzantine Capital of the Peloponnese
by Steven Runciman
110 members
2 reviews
3.9
34
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3-Volume Set)
by Alexander P. Kazhdan
108 members
4.8
35
Byzantium and the Crusades
by Jonathan Harris
102 members
2 reviews
3.9
36
The last centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453
by Donald M. Nicol
99 members
½ 4.7
37
The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition
by Norman Russell
99 members
4
38
Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series)
by Eusebius
88 members
2 reviews
4
40
The Art of the Byzantine Empire 312-1453: Sources and Documents
by Cyril Mango
76 members
½ 4.3
43
Late antique, early Christian and mediaeval art
by Meyer Schapiro
60 members
45
Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
by Patricia Crone
59 members
½ 4.5
46
Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 565-1204
by John Haldon
59 members
1 review
3.8
48
The Byzantines
by Guglielmo Cavallo
55 members
½ 3.3
49
Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam
by G. W. Bowersock
52 members
1 review
½ 4.3
50
Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081-1797 (Midway Reprint)
by William H. McNeill
50 members
½ 3.5
51
The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon
by Richard Price
50 members
52
Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations
by Donald M. Nicol
49 members
½ 4.3
53
Procopius and the Sixth Century
by Averil Cameron
48 members
54
Mystras - The Medieval City and Castle
by Manolis Chatzidakis
47 members
4
55
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs (Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs)
by Nadia Maria El Cheikh
46 members
1 review
½ 3.5
57
Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
by A. P. Kazhdan
44 members
1 review
½ 2.5
58
The Book of Pontiffs (Liber Pontificalis)
by Raymond Davis
44 members
59
Chronicon Paschale 284-628
by Michael Whitby
43 members
4
61
The Varangians of Byzantium
by Sigfús Blöndal
36 members
1 review
3.1
62
The last Byzantine Renaissance
by Steven Runciman
36 members
1 review
3
63
Cassiodorus: Selected Variae
by S.J.B. Barnish
34 members
5
66
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180
by Paul Magdalino
33 members
4
69
The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
by Paul Stephenson
32 members
4.2
70
The Seventh Century in the West Syrian Chronicles
by Andrew Palmer
30 members
73
Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900
by Leslie Brubaker
24 members
1 review
4
76
Treasures of Mount Athos
by Athanasios A. Karakatsanis
23 members
3
77
Byzantinoslavica
23 members
79
Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261
by Michael Angold
21 members
½ 3.5
85
Theoderic in Italy
by John Moorhead
19 members
87
Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources
by Katerina Ierodiakonou
18 members
1 review
88
Abd al-Malik
by Chase Robinson
17 members
2
90
Anna Komnene and Her Times (Garland Medieval Casebooks)
by Thalia Gouma-Peterson
15 members
4
91
The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna
by Agnellus of Ravenna
15 members
92
Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond
by Shaun Tougher
14 members
5
93
Photius: The Bibliotheca (Selected Works)
by Photius
14 members
½ 4.5
94
Decline and fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks
by Doukas
14 members
2 reviews
3
95
Writing in Gold: Byzantine Society and its Icons
by Robin Cormack
14 members
97
The Chronicle of Adam Usk 1377-1421 (Oxford Medieval Texts)
by Adam of Usk
14 members
98
Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium
by Liz James
13 members
1 review
5