Table of contents : 2. The empire from Constantine the Great to Justinian 3. Justinian the Great and his successors (518-610) 4. The Heraclian epoch (610-717) 5. The Iconoclastic epoch (717-867) 6. The Macedonian epoch (867-1081) 7. Byzantium and the Crusades 8. The Empire of Nicaea (1204-61) 9. The fall of Byzantium