Empires of Faith

A panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam.

Peter Sarris was born in St Albans and educated at St. Albans School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he specialized in Medieval and Byzantine history. After Balliol, he was elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Late Roman, Early Medieval, and Byzantine History at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Trinity College. He has lectured and published widely on early medieval and Byzantine history both in the UK and abroad, and has appeared on historical programmes on television and radio and written on archaeological matters for The Times.

1: The World that had been Rome
2: The Formation of Post-Roman Society
3: The Romano-Germanic Kingdoms
4: The View from the East
5: Byzantium, the Balkans, and the West
6: Religion and Society
7: Heraclius, Persia, and Holy War
8: The Age of Division
9: The Princes of the Western Nations
Epilogue
Select Bibliography and Further Reading