This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. bulletlistbulletExpands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidencebulletIncludes additional maps and photographs, and a newly annotated, updated bibliographybulletIncorporates a new section on web resources for Byzantium studiesbulletDemonstrates that Byzantium was important in its own right but also served as a bridge between East and West and ancient and modern societybulletSituates Byzantium in its broader historical context with a new comparative timeline and textboxesbr//bulletlist