Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204
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Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204
(Modern revivals in history)
Gregg Revivals, 1992
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Note
Bibliography: p. [283]-312
Reprint. Originally published: Harvard University Press, 1968
Description and Table of Contents
Description
At the death of emperor Manuel I Comnenus in 1180, the Byzantine Empire appeared to be a solidly constructed state; in 1204, barely a quarter century later, Constantinople fell to the forces of the Fourth Crusade. Brand analyzes the internal and external pressures which beset Byzantium: the tyranny of Andronicus I comnenus, the incapable Angeli emperors, the pressure of Turks and Bulgarians, and especially the onslaught of the vigorous West. Attacks and threats from Normans, Frederick Barbarossa, and his son Henry VI, and eventually the Fourth Crusaders were reinforced by commercial pressure from Venice, Genoa and Pisa.
Table of Contents
- The state and the people - inherited problems
- the legacy of Manuel Comnenus
- the last Comneni - Alexius II and Andronicus I
- the reign of Isaac II
- towards disaster - Alexius III
- the Norman threat - 1185
- Frederick Barbarossa's crusade
- the tributary state - Henry VI and Byzantium
- toward commercial monopoly - the Venetians
- Venice's rivals - Genoa and Pisa
- the last hope - alliance with the papacy
- the failure of Byzantine foreign policy - the fourth crusade at Constantinople.
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