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The book contains two major sections: East and West in the Middle Ages, and Byzantium and the Renaissance. There are 16 plates with two b/w pictures each, and the frontispiece is a full-page b/w detail of the Archangel of the Ascension, from Greece. There are also three maps: a full-page map of The Byzantine (Roman) Empire in 565 under Justinian; a foldout map of The Byzantine Empire and the Early Crusades; and a full-page map of Venetian Colonies in the Greek East.