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Authors: Jonathan Shepard | Simon Franklin

Byzantine Diplomacy: Papers of the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

1992

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The papers presented at the 24th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in Cambridge in 1990, are collected in this volume. It is a detailed examination of Byzantine diplomacy from the empire’s emergence in late antiquity to its death throes when the Ottoman Turks conquered it. This is not just a narrow study of political relations, but a broad sweep from Italy to the steppes of Central Asia, from the imperial court to the marriage bed, from the scriptorium to the barracks. The book also includes a mysterious communication from a long-dead emperor. “Byzantine Diplomacy” is the first of a series published on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies.