ISBN: 0-521-43991-4
Godina izdanja: 2002
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

DONALD M. NICOL

THE LAST CENTURIES OF BYZANTIUM 1261-1453

Izdavač - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Godina - 2002

466 strana

25 cm

ISBN - 0-521-43991-4

Povez - Broširan

Stanje - Kao na slici, tekst bez podvlačenja



SADRŽAJ:
List of plates
Preface
List of abbreviations
Genealogical table
Map

The Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade
The Empire in exile and its restoration

THE PROBLEMS OF THE RESTORED EMPIRE: THE REIGN OF MICHAEL VIII PALAIOLOGOS - 1261-82
The price of survival
The battle of wits between east and west
The Byzantine dilemma in the thirteenth century

BYZANTIUM AS A SECOND-RATE POWER: THE REIGN OF ANDRONIKOS II PALAIOLOGOS - 1282-1321
Symptoms and causes of decline
The restoration of orthodoxy
The failure to find a cure
The nature of the enemy

THE MORTAL ILLNESS OF BYZANTIUM: THE AGE OF CIVIL WARS 1321-54
The question of the succession and the first civil war
The reign of Andronikos III - 1328-41
The second civil war 1341-7
The reign of John VI Cantacuzene-1347-54

BYZANTIUM AS A VASSAL OF THE TURKS: THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS - 1354-1453
The reign of John V Palaiologos - 1354-91
The reign of Manuel II: the first crisis - 1391-1402
The last reprieve - 1402-25
The Ottoman revival and the reign of John VIII Palaiologos - 1425-48
Constantine XI and Mehmed II: the fall of Constantinople - 1448-53
The last outposts of Byzantium

Glossary
Bibliography
Index


`The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. It revived when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261. This book narrates the history of the restored Empire from 1261 to its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. It describes its struggles for survival, against the Christians of the west who longed to retrieve the prize of Constantinople; against the continuing occupation of Greece and the Aegean islands by French, Genoese and Venetian colonists; against the growing might of the Turks in Asia Minor; against the expansion of the Serbian Empire in the Balkans; and against the suicidal squabbles among its own ruling families. Its tenacity was revealed in a lively cultural and religious revival in the fourteenth century, but as an institution it succumbed to a long process of attrition as the Turks overran its provinces in Asia and Europe and finally its capital city.

First published in 1972, the book has been completely revised, amended and in part rewritten, with its source references and bibliography updated to take account of new scholarly research on this last period of Byzantine history.`



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Adrianople Albania Andronikos Palaiologos Apokaukos Alexios Arsenios Patriarch Arsenites Arta Athanasios Mount Athos Baldwin Bayezid John Bekkos Bessarion George Branković Brusa Bulgaria Charles Chios Church Byzantine Constantine Constantinople Corfu Corinth Didymoteichon Stepehn Dušan Uroš Epiros Greek Galata Gallipoli Gennadios Genoese Genoa Golden Horn Nikephoros Gregoras John Corvinus Hunyadi Isidore John Palaiologs Cantacuzene Doukas Kalekas Joseph Kallistos Demetrios Kydones Stephen Lazarević Manfred Of Hohenstaufen Manuel Palaiologos Manuel Cantacuzene Matthew Michael Milutin Stephen Mongols Murad Ottoman Nikephoros Doukas Orhan Gregory Palamas Philadelphia Bishop Herakleia Philotehos Phokaia Ragusa Saruhan Seljuq Turks Selymbria Serbia Serbians Serres Smyrna Suleiman Theodore Synadenos Michael Tarchaniotes Tenedos Island Theodore Palaiologs Thessalonica Thessaly Turahan Umur Beg Pasha Venice William Villehardouin Benedetto Zaccaria Zealots