Yeah, I read Tracy Barrett's novel about Anna Comnena, Anna of Byzantium ages ago; it was lightweight, but decent. And Sutcliff's Blood Feud is one of my favorites and largely responsible for my current desire to Learn More About Byzantium (you may also be thinking of The Shining Company, where some of the characters plan head off to Constantinople, but none of the book is set there).
I shall look for the others! Byzantium seems to be an underutilized historical setting--it's got all the best aspects of Rome (okay, if by "best" you mean "chariot racing," which I do) plus religious drama and mosaics and illuminated manuscripts and medievalness and the Varangian Guard and Russia and Constantinople.
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Date: 2012-12-15 01:37 am (UTC)I shall look for the others! Byzantium seems to be an underutilized historical setting--it's got all the best aspects of Rome (okay, if by "best" you mean "chariot racing," which I do) plus religious drama and mosaics and illuminated manuscripts and medievalness and the Varangian Guard and Russia and Constantinople.