The history of the Byzantine Empire. Set in 3 volumes

Readers are offered the first book from the famous Acad trilogy. F.I. Uspensky, dedicated to the description of the thousand -year history of the Byzantine Empire, whose ideology and the very spirit after the death of Byzantium in the 15th century. Inherited Russia, copying many of the features of Byzantinism in the modern post -Soviet era. It is difficult to overestimate the relevance of the labor of Uspensky for understanding and adequate assessment by contemporaries of the imperial present multinational Russia and the closest and long -term prospects of its historical being in the modern multipolar world, full of irreconcilable interstate contradictions of global proportions.
The book discusses the first periods of the early history of the formation of the Byzantine Empire - from the time of the founding of its capital, Konstantin the Great (330) until the time (717) of the iconoclastic period. The author was not limited only to the historiography of events filled with continuous wars with numerous European and Asian neighbors of the New Eastern Empire, internal bloody strives, treason and intrigues. Much attention was paid to the coverage of objective and subjective causes of events, including economic and religious and moral nature, for which the author did a huge research work on the study of the poorly preserved manuscript material of the dark centuries" of the Middle Ages. The book is distinguished not only by the brilliant possession of the author of the primary sources, which he often quotes to achieve the adequacy in understanding the most difficult problems of the development of the described historical events, but at the same time a bright and intelligible language, devoid of ordinary pedantry and dry scientific and historical treatises.
is addressed to young scientists and students of humanitarian universities, as well as all readers interested in the history of states and peoples of the Orthodox world