About the book: 2005 / The book by Andre Guillou, a historian of the Annales school, comprehensively examines the thousand-year history of Byzantium - a theocratic empire that united the heritage of classical Antiquity and the East. The book describes the history of the Byzantine space and the real life of people in their daily existence, with their needs corresponding to their position in society, forms of power and forms of thinking, government institutions and social structures, economics and various cultural expressions. The Byzantine church, with its magnificent architecture, exquisite beauty of interior decoration, designed to evoke awe as a tangible sign of the other world, is the object of special attention of the author. The book is intended both for specialists - teachers and students, and for everyone who is interested in history and the history of the medieval the world in particular.