Reddit mentions of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization

I re-edited this. Here's some other cool stuff everyone might like or want to check out:

• Byzantium, The Lost Empire - YT playlist, it's a documentary series sort of along the lines of the civilization by Ken Clark (Which is awsome in itself).
  
  
• 12 Byzantine Rulers by Lars Brownworth. I've only listened through it once (maybe it's time to again?) but it's absolutely amazing.
  
  
• Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization Also by Mr. Brownsworth. I've only listened to the Audiobook (Got it through Audible awhile back), but it's pretty cool.
  
  I'm sure I'll remember some other cool stuff. The Roman/Early Middle Ages are one of my favorite time periods, and I've seen a lot of documentaries, read a lot of books, and such on this era.

The book is great too: Lost to the West. The author (Lars Brownsworth, who did the above podcast while writing this book) reads the audio version. Hard cover is great too, has maps, dynasties, etc. It's not religion focused, but obviously Christianity was a huge part of the empire so it plays an important role in the history.

read this and maybe you will change your mind