Abstract
Consciously or unconsciously, Jonathan Harris's book echoes one published more than thirty years ago: Donald M. Nicol's The End of the Byzantine Empire (1979). Two books with almost the same title could hardly be more different, for whereas Nicol covers the last three hundred years of Byzantine history in just 112 pages, Harris covers the last half century in close to 300, including nineteen pages of notes. Yet Harris is writing in the same line of historiography as Nicol and, before him, Steven Runciman: a particularly British tradition of narrating late Byzantine history, especially its dramatic climax, as a stirring story of people and events. Runciman produced a popular history of the fall of Constantinople, and Nicol wrote a biography of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos. The End of Byzantium is a worthy successor to both books and indeed supersedes them as an introduction to the empire in its final hour.
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