Asimov Isaac. Constantinople: The forgotten empire

Houghton Mifflin, 1970. — 312 p. — ISBN 978-0395109083, 0395109086.Traces the history of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire from the seventh century B.C. to the fifteenth century A.D. and discusses the influence of that Empire on the civilization of Europe.The town on the strait
The forgotten Empire
Opposite the city of the blind
The life line of Athens
The coming of Macedon
The coming of Rome
The Empire moves East
The capital of the East
Constantine’s city
Constantine’s religion
The Empire in halves
The triple walls
The end of the West
The East goes West
The two strategies
Uncle and nephew
Organizing for peace and war
Back from the Ashes
Victory in the West
The last years
The double catastrophe
New barbarians
The first catastrophe
Recovery
The second catastrophe
The defense of Europe
The growing danger
The great siege — one
The loss of Africa
The great siege two
Monks and Emperors
The image breaker
The struggle over icons
New Empire in the West
The bulgar-arab nutcracker
Patriarch and pope
Emperors and generals
A new dynasty
The northern barbarians
Born in the purple
Generals on the throne
8 The empire at the peak
The bulgar killer
The high Plateau
The Empress’ husbands
The coming of the Turks
The West comes East
The consequences of defeat
The Norman invasion
The Warriors of the Cross
The last of the glory
The Downhill slide
Ruin!
The ghost of Empire
The latin interval
The Downhill slide again
The Ottoman turks
The last stand
Epilogue: ghost of a ghost
Table of dates
Genealogies
Index