'I love this book. The strangeness, the darkness, the madness, the gruesomeness, the politics, the families, the feuding, the deaths! It makes Game of Thrones look like a scrap in the playground' - Russell T. Davies
FOREWORD by Robert Peston INTRODUCTION by Bettany Hughes
Constantinian Dynasty (306-363) Non-Dynastic Ruler (363-364) Valentinian Dynasty (364-379) Theodosian Dynasty (379-457) Leonid Dynasty (457-518) Justinian Dynasty (518-602) Non-Dynastic Usurper (602-610) Heraklian Dynasty (610-695) Twenty Years of Anarchy (695-717) Isaurian Dynasty (717-802) Nikephorian Dynasty (802-813) Non-Dynastic Ruler (813-820) Amorian Dynasty (820-867) Macedonian Dynasty (867-1056) Non-Dynastic Ruler (1056-1057) Komnenian Dynasty (I: 1057-1059) Doukid Dynasty (1059-1081) Komnenian Dynasty (II: 1081-1185) Angelid Dynasty (1185-1204) Latin Constantinople and the Empire in Exile (1204-1461) The Empire of Nicaea (1208-1261) Palaiologan Dynasty (1261-1453)
Kevin Lygo is an expert in Islamic and Byzantine art who has travelled across Europe and the Middle East extensively. He has previously edited the publications Portraits of the Masters: Bronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages (2003) and Pages of the Qur'an. A study of Islamic Calligraphy (2011). He is Director of Television at ITV and was formerly Director of Television at Channel 4. Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Robert Peston is a journalist, writer and the Political Editor of ITV News.