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Jonathan Shea: Politics and Government in Byzantium: The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats (New Directions in Byzantine Studies) [2022] paperback ZCRAF along with less familiar membersThe eleventh century marked a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. At its start Byzantium was the paramount power in the Mediterranean world, by turns feared, respected and admired. By the century's close the empire had lost half of its territory and had managed only a partial recovery under the leadership of the Komnenos family. How did a powerful and famously wealthy empire collapse so quickly? The contemporary accounts of this