Tout l’or de Byzance

In 330, Constantine made the ancient city of Byzantium, renamed Constantinople in his honor, the capital of the Roman Empire. Heir to Greek antiquity and standard-bearer of Christianity, the Belle Cité resisted barbarian invasions and Arab conquest for centuries before falling to the Ottomans in 1453. Michel Kaplan retraces a thousand years of Byzantine history, cradle of Orthodox Christianity and guardian of Greek culture.