About Judith Herrin: Judith Herrin is a British archaeologist and academic of Late Antiquity. She is Professor Emerita of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London.
In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the , the long term: that which survives the vicissitudes of changing governments, newfangled fashions or technological improvements, an ongoing inheritance th...