But even without the book, enough is already on record (for Mark's careless generosity bequeathed a remarkable number of papers to obscure conference volumes) for the outlines of his case to be clear. A discussion might begin on the safely Byzantinist ground of the sixth-century Nile Valley and its Christian schisms, but within five minutes Mark would have you deep in the demography of early Tang China. Byzantium, for Mark Whittow, had no boundaries. [Extracted from the article]
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