Reviews
"As a work of scholarship the new edition is a considerable achievement since it has taken a classic and made it even better."-- Nottingham Medieval Studies, "A masterful, up-to-date revision, which has taken a classic to an even higher level of historical inquiry and subtlety."--James Ross Sweeney, Pennsylvania State University, "The narrative is crisp; the vignettes of individuals, illuminating; and the overall grasp of action, masterful, whether describing the first terrifying assault of the Venetian ships or analyzing the complex power structure in the Byzantine court."--Grover A. Zinn, Jr., Church History , in a review of the first edition