📚 The Byzantine Empire

The eastern Rome that lasted a thousand years after the west fell — Constantinople, icon and emperor, and the bridge to the Renaissance.

Below are the 29 works carrying the subject byzantine empire in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged	Edward Gibbon	1776	222
	The Secret History	Procopius	1623	80
	The Alexiad	Anna Comnena	1610	71
	Michaelis Attaliotae historia	Michael Attaleiates	1853	10
	The Chronographia	Michael Psellus	1953	9
	The Byzantines	David Talbot Rice	1962	8
	The Byzantine economy	Angeliki E. Laiou	2007	8
	John Lydus and the Roman past	Michael Maas	1992	7
	Constantinople	Philip Mansel	1995	6
	Sailing from Byzantium	Colin Wells	2006	5
	The Byzantine Empire	Charles William Chadwick Oman	1892	4
	La romanie Génoise	Michel Balard	1978	4
	The Silk Route	John S. Major	1995	4
	The economic history of Byzantium	Angeliki E. Laiou	2002	4
	Byzantine Empire [2 Volumes]	James Francis LePree	2019	4
	The Fabric of Civilization	Virginia Postrel	2020	4
	Constantine Porphyrogenitus	Constantine Porphyrogenitus	1949	3
	Constantinople in the age of Justinian	Glanville Downey	1960	3
	The late Byzantine army	Mark C. Bartusis	1992	3
	Who in the World Was the Acrobatic Empress?	Robin Phillips	2006	3
	The Culture of the Byzantine Empire	Vic Kovacs	2016	3
	Byzantine Empire	Carolyn DeCarlo	2017	3
	Byzantine Empire	Mary Griffin	2019	3
	The History of John Kantakouzenos (Book 1)	John VI Cantacuzenus Emperor of the East	1979	2
	The Byzantine Empire	James A. Corrick	1997	2
	The Empire That Would Not Die	John Haldon	2016	2
	The Book of the Prefect	Arthur Edward Romilly Boak	1929	1
	Kaiser Konstantin VI	Speck, Paul.	1978	1
	The Byzantine Empire	Jennifer VanVoorst	2013	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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