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| #2098710 in Books | Bloomsbury Academic | 2009-05-05 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.22 x.89 x6.36l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 312 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great book!|By Guilherme Matos|While I read I couldn't stop wondering: what if the Byzantine empire lasted beyond the Middle Ages? It is a rather bittersweet read that entices the mind about treasures and riches that we will never see. In retrospect, I believe Constantinople never ceased to exist and just "evolved" to a different form after the Ottoman conquest -- the sultan ad||
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In the early Middle Ages, the greatest city in Europe was not Paris, London or Berlin but Constantinople, capital of Byzantium. It was an article of faith that a saintly emperor, divinely appointed, had founded Constantinople and that the city was as holy as Rome or Jerusalem. The Byzantine emperors assiduously promoted the notion of a spiritual aura around the city. Thus, in 917, the emperor's regent wrote to the khan of the Bulgars warning him not to attack Consta...
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