Crimea was a key site of conflict between the Byzantine Empire and the early Russian people, the Rus', in the Middle Ages.

Preliminary note / V. Christides -- Across the history -- L'Afrique dans les Ethnika de Stéphane de Byzance / Jehan Desanges -- Arabs, Turks and Chinese in central Asia during the first third of the ...

Art of Europe’s “Age of Faith”: Romanesque, Gothic, Byzantine, Moorish, and even Viking. After Rome fell, Europe spent a thousand years in its Middle Ages. Its art shows how the light of civilization ...

Previously published in German and French. Collation: 16 pts. in 2 v., with 8 plates in each pt., 128 plates in all. Plates have caption title: Die Ornamentik des ...