Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

Copyright © 2009 by Lars Brownworth

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown Publishers,

an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group,

a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

www.crownpublishing.com

CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered

trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on request from the Library of Congress.

eISBN: 978-0-307-46241-1

Maps by Anders Brownworth

v3.0