Византия

Ожье Гислен де Бусбек цитируется по изданию: Turkish Letters, trans. Edward Seymour Forster (Oxford, 1927), pp. 36–7. Жиль и Гиббон о падении Византии, см.: Pierre Gilles, The Antiquities of Constantinople, trans. John Ball (Ithaca NY, 1988, 2nd edn), p. xliv; Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley, 3 vols (London, 1994), vol. 3, p. 791. Общий обзор политической истории Византии 306–1453 гг. см.: Warren Treadgold, A History of the Byzantine State and Society (Stanford CA, 1997), A Concise History of Byzantium (Basingstoke and New York, 2001); Timothy E. Gregory, A History of Byzantium (Oxford and Malden MA, 2010, 2nd edn); Dionysios Stathakopoulos, A Short History of the Byzantine Empire (London, 2014). На эту же тему: Averil M. Cameron, The Byzantines (Oxford and Malden MA, 2006), Byzantine Matters (Princeton NJ, 2014); Jonathan Harris (ed.), Byzantine History (Palgrave Advances series, Basingstoke and New York, 2005); Cyril Mango (ed.), The Oxford History of Byzantium (Oxford and New York, 2002); Judith Herrin, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (Harmondsworth, 2007); Jonathan Shepard (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c. 500–1492 (Cambridge, 2008).

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