About the book: 1973 / A. P. Kazhdan - Doctor of Historical Sciences, employee of the Institute of General History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, author of a number of books on the history of religion and history Byzantium. The publishing house “Nauka” published his monographs: “Agrarian relations in Byzantium in the 13th–14th centuries.” (1952), “Village and city in Byzantium in the 9th–10th centuries.” (1960), “Byzantine culture (X–XII centuries)” (1968). In the new work, as if adjacent to “Byzantine Culture,” the author talks about such an important element of Byzantine civilization as the book, how the book was made and how it was stored, how they learned to write at school, and how by a Byzantine writer. The reader will learn about the Byzantine medieval book, Byzantine science and Byzantine literature.