The Bibliography (The Official Praise)

I have a lot more than anticipated happening this week. I was hoping to finish Istanbul bit by this Friday, but it is looking like that will not happen. But, I do have time to do something that it drastically needed: Official Praise.

Throughout this blog I have been referencing a number of texts. Here’s the formal bibliography of the texts that I have been using:


Crowley, Roger. 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West. New York, New York: Hyperion, 2005.

Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Lowden, John. Early Christian & Byzantine Art. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1997.

Luttwak, Edward N. The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Mango, Cyril. Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome. New York: Charless Scribner’s Sons, 1980.

Mathews, Thomas F. Religious Organization and Church Architecture. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997.

Norwich, John Julius. Byzantium: The Early Centuries. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995.

*___________. Byzantium: The Apogee. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995.

*___________. Byzantium: The Decline and Fall. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1995.

Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories and the City. New York, New York: Vintage International, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2006.

Phillips, Jonathan. The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. New York, New York: Penguin Group, 2004.

Wells, Colin. Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World. New York, New York: Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2006.