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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 3676960, member: 87200&quot;]Bravo [USER=72790]@kevin McGonigal[/USER] ! I was fortunate to take a Byzantine upper division history course at UC Berkeley. Similar to your point, the course in the catalog was only offered about every third year and in my case was taught by Professor Warren Treadgold who is one of the leading experts on Byzantium. We had 12 students in the class.</p><p><br /></p><p>His works:</p><ul> <li><i>The Early Byzantine Historians</i> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007);</li> <li><i>A Concise History of Byzantium</i> (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001);</li> <li>Treadgold, Warren T. (1997). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC" rel="nofollow"><i>A History of the Byzantine State and Society</i></a>. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.</li> <li><i>Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081</i> (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995);</li> <li><i>The Byzantine Revival, 780-842</i> (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988);</li> <li><i>The Byzantine State Finances in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries</i> (New York: East European Monographs, 1982); and</li> <li><i>The Nature of the Bibliotheca of Photius</i> (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1980). </li> </ul><p>Fortunately I learned quite a lot and that fueled lots of later reading on the topic. As you know, the western European historical tradition has been unkind to Byzantium in the primary sources. The Journey of Louis VII to the East portrays Manuel Comnenus as a villain who ruined a crusade. Similarly there is an unflattering portrait of Nicephorus Phocas in the Bishop Liutprand&#039;s <i>Relatio de legatione Constantinopolitana.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>It seems that the general lack of knowledge on Byzantium has continued to the present. Hopefully this will change in the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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