Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204
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Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204
Clarendon Press, 1993
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Byzanz und die Kreuzfahrerstaaten
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Published in association with the Byzantine-Modern Greek Seminar of the Free University of Berlin by the Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich, 1981, as no. 1 in the Series Poikila Byzantina. Revised 1988
Bibliography: p. [321]-336
Includes index
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This is the first full scholarly study of the relations between Byzantium and the Crusader States of Syria and Palestine. Ralph-Johannes Lilie sets out to explore the policies and principles which shaped contacts between the Eastern Empire, the Crusader States, and the nations of Western Europe whence the Crusaders came. He traces the actions of the Byzantine Emperors in the twelfth century as they sought to keep control of the crusading armies within their
territories and to maintain their positions with respect to the west, and shows how mutual suspicion and attempts at co-operation ended in downright enmity.
Originally published to much acclaim in German, Byzantium and the Crusader States has been revised for the English edition by Professor Lilie, and a lucid and scholarly translation provided by J. C. Morris and Jean E. Ridings.
`Lilie's book is an important one, not only because the course of relations between Greeks and Latins in the eastern Mediterranean region is discussed in a refreshingly original way, but also because all historians of the Latin East will want to consult it on points of detail.'
Jonathan Riley-Smith, English Historical Review
Table of Contents
- Expectations and dissensions - the First Crusade and Byzantium (1096-1098)
- the antagonisms sharpen - Alexius I Comnenus and the Crusader states (1098-1119)
- the height of confrontation - John Comnenus (1118-1143)
- the "policy of detente" - Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180)
- Byzantine weakness and the relapse into the policy of confrontation - from Alexius II Comnenus to Alexius V Murtzuphlus (1180-1204)
- Byzantium and the Crusader states from 1096 to 1204 - summary. Appendices: Laodicea, Antioch and Byzantium between 1098 and 1105
- objectivity and bias in John Cinnamus, Nicetas Choniates and William of Tyre
- the Treaty of 1137 between Byzantium and the Princedom of Antioch according to Ordericus Vitalis and William of Tyre
- the alliance of the Franks with Byzantium for the conquest of Egypt (1165-1177).
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