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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Byzantine Empire |
 | | Leo III, the Syrian (717-41), who saved Byzantium from the Arabian peril, repulsed the last serious attack of the Arabs on the capital (September, 717, to August, 718), by his reforms made the empire superior to its foes, and brought the views of these sectaries into the policy of the Byzantine empire. | | | In the celebrated edict of 726 he condemned the veneration of images, a decree which he considered part of his reforming activity. | | | Again and again was the Byzantine Empire de facto reduced to the limits of the capital city, which Anastasius had transformed into an unrivaled fortress; and often, too, was the victory over its foes gained by troops before whose ferocity its own citizens trembled. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03096a.htm
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| | Byzantium! |
| | In the meantime, Calaphilus invites Ian to the barracks, and reveals that he is on the trail of a conspiracy which he believes stretches all the way to the praefectus. | | | As he resigns himself to a long life stuck on Earth, Daniel returns from the city with terrible news; while protesting the crucifixion of two Christians who had been accused of heresy by the Pharisees, Aaron was killed by a group of Zealots who turned on all of the Christians in the crowd. | | | Hieronymous, leader of the Pharisee Jews in Byzantium, faces trouble on several fronts. |
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| | What John Julius Norwich Forgot to Tell You About The Byzantine Empire |
| | Byzantium claimed the theoretical right to rule the entire world, or at least the entire Christian world. | | | As with so many of the cynical journalists writing history, Byzantium merely mirrored the universal end of all human beings: personal self-interest. | | | The Holy City had been violated, and violated in the most vile way by groups of marauders, under orders from the First Rome, to stamp out "heresy." The sore festers to this day between East and West. |
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http://www.barnesreview.org/May_June/What_John_Julius_Norwich_Forgo/what_john_julius_norwich_forgo.html
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| | NEW BYZANTIUM ~ Ultima HESPERIA: Flower of Western Civilization |
| | Byzantium in the New Era is foretold in the American continent as New Byzantium, not only in California but including the city of Valencia, Venezuela, in view of the secret and magical name of Byzantium or Constantinople, which was: VALENTIA. | | | The true issue in that quest is not the presence of that freedom but how that freedom is used. | | | Political interests have persistently obscured this reality which at last is beginning to surface in the minds and consciousness of an informed world. |
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http://www.new-byzantium.org/newbyz.html
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| | Angeliki A. Laiou - Byzantium and the West |
| | One would like to think that Hugh's descendants were among those crusaders who considered such an act an abomination and refused to participate; but there were not very many Venetians who thought this way, and so Païlï's son or grandson would have been among the conquerors and desecrators of the greatest city in Christendom. | | | The actual presence of Byzantium in the West fluctuated with political circumstances. | | | But as the Venetian presence increased, so the terms of trade became untenable for the Byzantine merchant class, which seems to have been a large one. |
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http://www.myriobiblos.gr/texts/english/laiou_byzwest.html
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| | Byzantine Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Certainly, the Venetians and others were active traders in the ports of the Holy Land, and they made a living out of shipping goods between the Crusader Kingdoms of Outremer and the West while also trading extensively with Byzantium and Egypt. | | | Constantine made a momentous and far-reaching decision - one of the two momentous decisions in his reign, the other being the acceptance of Christianity - when he decided to found a new capital city, and chose Byzantium for that purpose. | | | He left the empire in a much better state than he had found it, and by the time of his death he had earned near universal respect, even from the Crusaders, for his courage, dedication and piety. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
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| | Also, an important political party in Byzantium itself favoured union with the West in the hope that a new Western Crusade might be made against the menacing Turks. | | | So they strove to create a polity entirely Christian in its principles of government and in its daily life. | | | Formal meetings were held in 1333, 1339, 1347, and 1355. |
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http://www.orthodoxsnohomish.com/links/byzantium.htm
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| | Byzantium at War |
| | Byzantium always existed under threat of extinction and the real answer to its longevity lies in the superior melding of diplomatic, informational (the Byzantines were masters in propaganda, espionage and deceit), military and economic (particularly bribes) tools. | | | Since no such data is presented for either Byzantium or its enemies, how does Haldon know that the empires resources were superior? | | | In the next sections, the author addresses the political world of Byzantium, its neighbors and enemies, and how Byzantium fought its wars. |
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http://www.historyamericas.com/Byzantium_at_War_1841763608.html
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| | When Byzantium faced a three-sided invasion from the Arabs, Avars, and Bulgarians in 717, the powerful leader Leo the Isaurian (717-741) came forward to save the empire. | | | Constantinople was a state-controlled, world trade center which enjoyed the continuous use of a money economy - in contrast to the localized systems found in the west. | | | In Byzantium's single-centered society, this religious conflict had far-reaching cultural, political, and social implications. |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kimball/BYZ.htm
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| | Bulgaria - a brief history outline - Bulgaria's relation with Byzantium |
| | Their leader in the 12th century, Vasilii, after a debate held in Constantinople, was condemned to be burnt at the stake. | | | Tsar Kaloyan (1197-1207) routed near Adrianople the troops of the Latin emperor Baldwin of Flanders and took him prisoner. | | | With his support and aid, after 886 religious activities began to be carried out in the Slavonic language, using the script and the works of the Slav apostles Constantine-Cyril and Methodius. |
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| | Macedonia and Byzantium |
| | This Macedonian vanguard did not always side with Byzantium, however, and were often inclined towards their own people, finding there support for their own intentions and plans. | | | Although unsuccessful, this revolt sought to spread and include the Macedonian population as well, and did succeed in assisting the beginnings of a latter uprising in Skopje under the leadership of Georgi Voyteh. | | | In Belgrade Petar Delyan was appointed tsar "after he had been lifted on a shield by the army." He was met there by representatives of the insurgents who had come from distant Macedonia. |
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http://www.unet.com.mk/mian/makiviz.htm
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| | Hotels in Turkey Hotels in Istanbul Blue Voyage Yachting and Cabin Charters The Byzantine Civilization |
| | While internal hostility for the throne persisted, the Fourth Crusade (1201-1204) was diverted to Byzantium by Venetians and claimants to the Byzantine throne from Egypt. | | | In 451, Marcianus held a religious council in Kadiköy in an attempt to peacefully resolve ongoing religious strife, but the disputes did not end. | | | Justinianos set out immediately to have Byzantium reconstructed, the Hagia Sophia restored, had St.Irene Church and the Underground Cisterns built, and had water brought to Byzantium through a network of aqueducts. |
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Byzantium and the Roman Primacy |
| | It is said also that Photius publicly denied the primacy and transferred it to Byzantium in 867 and convoked a Council which had condemned Pope Nicholas. | | | I have examined this story thoroughly in my book The Idea of Apostolicity in Byzantium and the Legend of the Apostle Andrew | | | It is believed that this story was used by the Patriarch Photius in a treatise denying the primacy of Rome and exalting the high position of the Byzantine See because it was founded by the brother of Peter, who had been the first of the Apostles chosen by the Lord. |
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http://www.unipeak.com/gethtml.php?_u_r_l_=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jYXRob2xpY2N1bHR1cmUub3JnL2RvY3MvZG9jX3ZpZXcuY2ZtP3JlY251bT0xMzU1
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| | Amazon.com: Byzantium (II) : The Apogee (Byzantium): Books: John Julius Norwich |
| | Small wonder also that the internal politics of Byzantium were among the most vicious and introspective known to to history - every page there is a new castration, putting-out-of-eyes, nose-slitting or beheading. | | | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | That precept remained true for the period covered by this instalment, "Byzantium: The Apogee," but in practice, the Eastern Empire of 800-1071 was a a totally Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian nation sandwiched between a resurgent Western Empire, an assertive Balkan community in the north and an explosive Muslim neighbor throughout the Arab pensinsula. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0394537793?v=glance
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| | BYZANTIUM - LoveToKnow Article on BYZANTIUM |
| | The modern Greeks attribute the introduction of Christianity into Byzantium to St Andrew; it certainly had some hold there in the time of Severus. | | | The ancient historians invariably note the profligacy of the inhabitants of Byzantium. | | | This overthrow of Byzantium was a great loss to the empire, since it might have served as a protection against the Goths, who afterwards sailed past it into the Mediterranean. |
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http://16.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BY/BYZANTIUM.htm
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| | Yeats' Byzantium |
| | Truly, from the point of view of his absolute and real hatred of time and the world, the old man imagined himself in a pure state which, were it realized, would have redeemed him as a functioning entity, though the reader might find the very purity of this state repulsive in its inhumanity. | | | Byzantium consists of the "substance" of what eternity actually is rather than some supposedly physical, changeless substance which, while being conceivable to the human mind, would necessarily involve form and matter and therefore the trappings of change and finity. | | | This contrast between the two poems is central to Yeats's re-imagining of his former theme. |
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| | World of Byzantium (Detailed Description) |
| | And the same can be said for Muslims, as well, whose own civilization owes much to Byzantium. | | | It was a colossus that bestrode two continents: a crucible where peoples, cultures, and ideas met and melded to create a world at once Eastern and Western, Greek and Latin, classical and Christian. | | | Renaissance scholars would name this powerful and brilliant civilization "Byzantium" after the ancient town that occupied the strategic spot where Constantine built his new capital. |
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http://www.teach12.com/store/course.asp?id=367&d=World+of+Byzantium
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.10.26 |
| | Even if one is using, as I do, a more recent synthesis which seeks to incorporate Byzantium and the Islamicate, for example that by B. Rosenwein, Loverance's focus on Byzantine culture would enrich the political outline. | | | Byzantium had ceased to exist." One could make this argument politically, since thereafter one can scarcely consider Byzantium to be an empire. | | | These are issues where one can offer alternative interpretations, and one finds only a few mistakes of fact. |
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| | Technorati Tag: Byzantium |
| | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged Byzantium. | | | Research Byzantium at Questia Find quality info at the world's online library. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. |
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| | Byzantium |
| | Since it is impossible to get more than a taste of the subject in a semester, we will concentrate on major problems, such as the search for political, economic and religious stability/power, the interaction of secular and religious forces, Byzantium as a multi-ethnic pre-modern society, the role of Byzantium in medieval Europe. | | | Following a chronological order, we will look, each week, at the questions and problems that occupy historians of Byzantium in their attempts to understand this civilization, and at some of the primary sources from which they draw their analysis. | | | Week 4 (January 28 and 30): Early Byzantium, 457-565. |
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| | Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts |
| | The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World | | | Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation | | | Siegecraft: Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals by "Heron of Byzantium" (PDF, 940 KB) |
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| | Amazon.com: Byzantium (Harper Fiction): Books: Stephen R. Lawhead |
| | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | The return to Byzantium to bring Nikos' treachery to light is wholly unsatisfactory and surreal...almost like an excuse to get the protagonist (Aidan) to commit murder and make him a man who has truly experienced (and done) everything that period in history had to offer. | | | The buildup to romance and the cheesy "breakup" of Kazimain and Aidan were simply terrible against some of the brilliant work of this novel. |
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| | Bibliography on Women in Byzantium |
| | "Ritual Brotherhood in Byzantium," Traditio 52, 1997, pp. | | | Meeks, W. "The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest Christianity," History of Religions 13. | | | Angold, M. Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261. |
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| | Byzantium: The Byzantine Studies Page |
| | [Even now Anglican seminaries are good places to locate books on Byzantine studies.] Byzantium was also "claimed" by some Orthodox Christian intellectuals. | | | This period is also significant as the time in which Byzantine culture was spread among the Slavs and other Balkan peoples. | | | Marxist historians are often derided, especially in the United States, for fitting facts to theory [as if they alone were guilty of this!] In Byzantium, especially in the agricultural laws of the tenth century, which were presented at the time as addressing a struggle of the "poor" and the "powerful". |
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| | [minstrels] Byzantium -- William Butler Yeats |
| | The amazing thing is that this rather ridiculous superstructure enabled him to enrich and deepen his response to experience in his later poems. | | | In particular, the myth of Byzantium as a magical city where life was entirely transmuted into art inspired Yeats to some of his finest poetic flights [sorry to repeat myself - thomas]. | | | This poem should be read in conjunction with 'Sailing to Byzantium' (the Minstrels, poem #21) (and the notes attached thereto) for full effect. |
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| | Byzantine Empire - All About Turkey |
| | The word Byzantine, in fact, comes from "Byzantium," which is the Greek name for a city on the Bosphorus. | | | The Byzantine people called themselves Romans although they were actually descendants of various ancient peoples and they spoke Greek. | | | The Greeks colonized the area first, in the mid-600's BC, even before Alexander the Great brought his troops into Anatolia (334 BC). |
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| | Constantine III of Byzantium |
| | Constantinople Read the history of the capital of the Greek empire of Byzantium. | | | Byzantium: The Byzantine Studies Page Resources for Byzantine history on the web, directed more to scholars than novice, maintained by Paul Halsall. | | | Byzantine Chant Includes history, theory, and Wav files of Byzantine choirs and individual psalters. |
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| | BYZANTIUM |
| | Byzantium is the centrepiece of a South Indian dance triptych called 'New Cities/Ancient Lands' which was created for and by the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company for their 1991 tour across the United Kingdom and Europe. | | | The third movement was filled with New Age ideas eventually concluding with material from the first movement. | | | The use of the name is purely symbolic (the symbiosis of east and west) with no historical authenticity whatsoever. |
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| | He developed as a result a deep fascination with Yeats's late verse, written when he had left behind romance, nationalism and politics, and gone to live with his young wife in a ruined Norman tower at Gort in the West of Ireland. | | | Byzantium originated as the central part of a three-movement song-cycle for soprano and orchestra which Tippett began to formulate during the mid-1980s. | | | Before long, however, the composer realised that his setting of W. Yeats's eponymous poem (dating from 1930) would seem disproportionately large-scale in such a context: so he abandoned the cycle and made the Yeats setting a composition in its own right. |
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| | Byzantium!!! |
| | I hope that those who read it will realize that the story of Byzantium is as interesting as that of Rome, and that Byzantine civilization was the most advanced of the Middle Ages, at a moment when the West was but a shadow lost in ignorance. | | | For this reason, in the present work we will refer to the Byzantine Empire or Byzantium in order not to confuse readers, but it should remain clear throughout that we are speaking of the Roman Empire. | | | The Latins, on the other hand, saw the Pope as the representative of God, and rulers were subject to the will of the Church. |
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| | History of Byzantium, Byzance, Constantinople and Istanbul |
| | Latin was used increasingly less after the founding of Byzantium and Greek began to take its place as the official language. | | | Naturally, this change also brought with it major political changes. | | | By the time of the collapse of the Empire, Byzantium merely consisted of the city of Istanbul and its immediate surrounds. |
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| | Byzantium |
| | This Ring of Classics Site is owned by Christian Olariu. | | | FROM NOW, YOU CAN USE MY This site is intended to help the students on Classics, as well as people interested in the history of Late Antiquity/Early Byzantium. | | | I hve provided it with LINKS to other interesting and useful sites, which can help you in further research. |
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| | Byzantium |
| | This forum is dedicated to the general discussion of issues relating to the way Byzantium is governed. | | | Discussion about OOC governing of Byzantium, ie: rules of conduct, dispute resolution, etc. | | | A discussion about the timeline in which IC events take place in Byzantium. |
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| | Turkey Istanbul History Byzantium and Byzantian Empire |
| | Based on its architecture is believed to have been built between the 9th and l2th centuries. | | | loannes Predromes Monastery built in 463 between Samatya and Yedikule is one of the most important Christian centers of the Byzantium Period. | | | Valence Aqueduct was repaired and used in Byzantium and Ottoman periods. |
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| | Introduction |
| | This project is partly inspired by the model of the old city in Rome and the famous painting of Istanbul by Allan Sorell which are shown below. | | | Byzantium 1200 is a non-funded and non-profit project aimed at creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine Monuments located in Istanbul, TURKEY as of year 1200 AD. | | | I wish to thank Albrecht Berger - (Homepage of Albrecht Berger) without whom this project would not have been possible. |
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| | Byzantium - Homepage |
| | Byzantium is a great place to party or hold an event. | | | The 2am license allows serious celebration until late and there's no charge for room hire for exclusive use bookings. | | | Byzantium is centrally located in Bristol within the city's major business district & is near to a number of major hotels. |
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| | ArtLex on Byzantine Art |
| | Christ's left hand holds a closed Book of Gospels as he raises his right hand in benediction. | | | Making generalizations about the visual culture of any group of people is a crude endeavor, especially with a culture as diverse as Byzantium's. | | | The term, however, refers more to a style associated with Byzantium than to its area. |
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| | Agent of Byzantium (Harry Turtledove) - book review |
| | This is a bit implausible really, but the emphasis on technological discoveries is probably due to the intended audience (the stories were originally published in hard science fiction magazines) and it makes for a good story. | | | In a series of six short stories the hero, Basil Argyros, soldier and secret agent, confounds the enemies of the empire, in the process discovering smallpox innoculation and ferreting out the secrets of the telescope, gunpowder, distillation and the printing press. | | | Agent of Byzantium (Harry Turtledove) - book review |
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| | Art/Museums: Byzantium, Faith and Power (1261-1557) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | In doing so, he recognized the many centuries that the culture of Constantinople had been closely allied with its Hellenistic, or Greek, originsIn the early sixteenth century, that authority was vividly evoked by Filofei, abbot of the Eleazer Monastery in Pskov, when he wrote to the Russian czar Vasily III (r. | | | Rather, the legend of Saint Luke may have been initiated in one of Pulcheria's three churches that owned a venerated Hodegetria icon, which also served as a relic, as did the Virgin's mantle and girdle that were worshipped in Pulcheria's two other churches. | | | The work "forms the sliding lid of a reliquary of the True Cross," according to the catalogue, "that was given by Cardinal Bessarion to the Scuola of Santa Maria dei Battuti della Carita, a religious institution in Venice, before his death in 1472. |
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| | Byzantium ebook ebooks (e-books) links US or references to the subject of byzantium... | | | Including literary, historical and theological writings by women, spanning one thousand years from Iceland to Byzantium, this book presents the most comprehensive collection of primary writings by and about medieval women. | | | Byzantium ebook ebooks (e-books) links US Byzantium ebook ebooks (e-books) links US or references to byzantium... |
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| | Ensemble brings its acclaimed 'Music of Byzantium' to town |
| | Most of the musicians come from Portland, where Lingas was reared, although he is now on the faculty of Arizona State University when he is not at some other university in Europe or the United States doing research. | | | The concept of "Music of Byzantium" began in 1997 with a program titled "Latins in the Levant," which dealt with the Greek East after the Crusades, said the group's executive director, Mark Powell. | | | Only nine people sing in "Music of Byzantium," but Cappella Romana can expand up to 16 voices if the repertory demands it, said Powell, who is also a member of the singing ensemble. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Doctor Who: Byzantium! (Doctor Who S.): Books |
| | The author appears to have researched life in the period extensively, and convincingly portrays the different inhabitants of the city with a deft hand. | | | The Doctor warns of the brutality and corruption to be found here, only to see his party split up. | | | Having arrived on Earth in a less-than-gracious fashion, the crew of the TARDIS travel to the city of Byzantium to see the sites. |
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