Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 23-July 4, 2004
Helen C. Evans, ed., Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 658 pp., 721 color ills., 146 b/w. $75.00; $50.00 (paper)
The last centuries of the Byzantine Empire have often been characterized as a period of decline. Internal political and religious fissures, a waning share in the ...