内容简介

　　公元330年5月11日，随着“新罗马”君士坦丁堡都城的正式建成，拜占庭帝国辉煌的历史拉开帷幕。西方世界曾对拜占庭有一种根深蒂固的偏见，将其与堕落、粗俗或奢华联系在一起。但事实上，拜占庭帝国一度成功地重新征服西欧，与波斯人、斯拉夫人和奥斯曼人对抗，与斯堪的纳维亚半岛和中国发展商业关系，青睐非凡的科学和艺术的进步，同时延续了希腊-拉丁文化，从而促进了文艺复兴在欧洲的发生。

　　本书力图用丰富的考古文献、文物、历史遗迹图片等资料和严谨的考证，还原这个融合了希腊、罗马遗产和基督教文明神秘帝国的千年辉煌。

　　美国国家地理全球史

　　美国国家地理全球史系列，是美国国家地理学会出品的，规模宏大的一组历史丛书项目，是其100多年历史文化内容的培育与积累，共有30种图书。本套丛书内容由考古学家、历史学家、语言学家、地理学家、制图家、摄影师、插画家和编辑组成的多学科团队精心创制。立足于历史与文明的思索，以时间轴展开对世界各地文明及人类历史发展变量的解读和记录。本系列书目如下——

　　《早期的法老》《埃及帝国》《古埃及的终结》《美索不达米亚文明》《中东的王国和帝国》《希腊的起源》《古典希腊》《雅典的陷落》《亚历山大帝国》《罗马：从王政到共和》《罗马：征服地中海》《罗马共和国的终结》《罗马帝国的崛起》《罗马帝国：黄金时代》《罗马帝国：罗马的陷落》《拜占庭的辉煌》《中世纪欧洲》《伊斯兰的扩张》《中世纪的王国与王朝》《通往东方的新路线》《中世纪的终结》《征服美洲》《文艺复兴》《土耳其、俄罗斯帝国与明代中国》《绝对君权》《大航海时代》《启蒙运动》《法国大革命与拿破仑》《19世纪的世界》《世界大战》

　　作者简介

　　美国国家地理学会，1888年1月13日，于美国华盛顿的宇宙俱乐部成立，同年10月，新成立的学会创办了自己的会刊，这便是如今享誉全球的美国《国家地理》杂志。此外美国国家地理学会还拥有国家地理频道等包含电影、电视节目、图书、网站等一系列跨媒体品牌，如今学会现已经成为全球大型的非盈利的教育与科学机构。

Content introduction

On May 11, 330 AD, the glorious history of the Byzantine Empire began with the official construction of the "New Roman" capital city of Constantinople. The Western world had a deep-seated prejudice against Byzantium, associating it with depravity, vulgarity or luxury. But in fact, the Byzantine Empire for a time successfully reconquered Western Europe, fought the Persians, Slavs, and Ottomans, developed commercial relations with Scandinavia and China, favored extraordinary scientific and artistic advances, and perpetuated Greco-Latin culture, thus contributing to the Renaissance in Europe.

With a wealth of archaeological documents, artifacts, pictures of historical sites and rigorous textual research, this book seeks to restore the thousand-year glory of this mysterious empire, which combines Greek and Roman heritage and Christian civilization.

National Geographic Global History

The National Geographic Global History Series is a large-scale historical series project produced by the National Geographic Society of the United States, which is the cultivation and accumulation of its historical and cultural content for more than 100 years, with a total of 30 books. The content of this series has been carefully developed by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, historians, linguists, geographers, cartographers, photographers, illustrators and editors. Based on the thinking of history and civilization, it starts to interpret and record the variables of the development of civilization and human history around the world with the timeline. The books in this series are as follows

The Early Pharaohs, The Egyptian Empire, The End of Ancient Egypt, The Civilization of Mesopotamia, Kingdoms and Empires in the Middle East, The Origins of Greece, Classical Greece, The Fall of Athens, Alexander's Empire, Rome: From Kingship to Republic, Rome: Conquest of the Mediterranean, The End of the Roman Republic, The Rise of the Roman Empire, The Roman Empire: The Golden Age, The Roman Empire: The Fall of Rome, The Glory of Byzantium, Medieval Europe, The Expansion of Islam, Kingdoms and Dynasties in the Middle Ages, New Routes to the East, The End of the Middle Ages, The Conquest of the Americas, the Renaissance, Turkey, the Russian Empire and Ming China, The Absolute Monarchy, The Age of Navigation, The Enlightenment, The French Revolution and Napoleon, the 19th Century Ji World, War of the Worlds.

About the author

The National Geographic Society of the United States, on January 13, 1888, was founded in the Universe Club in Washington, United States, and in October of the same year, the newly established society founded its own journal, which is now the world famous National Geographic magazine. In addition, the National Geographic Society also owns a series of cross-media brands such as the National Geographic Channel, including movies, television programs, books, websites, and so on. Today, the society has become a large non-profit educational and scientific organization in the world.