关于东欧的英语著作较少，但是下列著作值得推荐：Archibald R. Lewis, Naval Power and Trade in the Mediterranean, A.D.500—1000 (Princeton, 1951); Sir Steven runciman, Byzantine Civilization (London, 1933); William H. McNeill, Venice: The Hinge of Europe, 1081—1797 (Chicago, 1974); Norman H. Baynes and H. St. L. B. Moss, ed., Byzantium (Oxford, 1961); Peter Charanis, Studies on the Demography of the Byzantine Empire: Collected Studies (London, 1972); O.M.Dalton, East Christian Art: A Survey of the Monuments (Oxford, 1925); N. P. Kondakov, The Russian Icon (Oxford, 1927); George Vernadsky, A History of Russia, 5 vols. (New Haven, 1943), 和Jerome Blum, Lord and Peasant in Russia (Princeton,1961).
伊斯兰王国。这是一个灵活的词语，因为伊斯兰在诞生后的1000年里一直使人皈依，并扩张领土基础，事实上今天仍然如此。此外，在这个总标题下考察一下帕提亚和萨珊帝国也很方便，因为在许多方面，它们是阿巴斯王朝哈里发的先驱。总体说来，对伊朗的研究很少。两部简明的概论著作是: Richard N. Frye, Heritage of Persia (Cleveland, 1963)，和Roman Ghirshman, Iran from the Earliest Times to the Islamic Conquest (Penguin, 1961).关于波斯和萨珊时期，参见: Neilson C. Debevoise, A Political History of Parthian (Chicago, 1938); 对于法语读者来说，Arthur Christensen, L’Iran sous les Sassanides, 2nd ed. (Copenhagen, 1944); Roman Chirshman, Persian Art, The Parthian and Sassanian Dynasties (New York, 1962); 和Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman, eds., A Survey of Persian Art, 7 vols. (London and New York, 1938—39)都是非常优秀的。关于宗教史，F. C. Burkitt, The Religion of the Manichees (Cambridge, 1925)和其它两部著作：Robert Charles Zaehner, The Dawn and Twlight of Zoroastrianism (New York, 1961)，和Zurvan: A Zoroastrian Dilemma (Oxford, 1955)也可以得到。
在众多概述伊斯兰教的著作中，下列著作特别优秀：H. A. R. Gibb, Mohammedanism: A Historical Survey, 2nd ed. (London, 1953); Bernard Lewis, The Arabs in History (London and New York, 1950); Marshall G. S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, 3 vols. (Chicago, 1974); Gustave E. von Grunebaum, Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation, 2nd ed. (Chicago, 1955); T. W. Arnold, The Caliphate (Oxford, 1924); 和T. W. Arnold, The Preachi