The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453The Byzantine Empire, fragmented and enfeebled by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, never again recovered its former extent, power and influence. Its greatest revival came when the Byzantines in exile reclaimed their capital city of Constantinople in 1261 and this book narrates the history of this restored empire from 1261 to its conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. 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 scholarly research on this last period of Byzantine history carried out over the past twenty years. |
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Contents
The Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade I | 1 |
The Empire in exile and its restoration | 19 |
the reign | 39 |
The battle of wits between east and west | 58 |
The Byzantine dilemma in the thirteenth century | 72 |
the reign | 91 |
Symptoms and causes of decline | 107 |
The failure to find a cure | 122 |
The second civil war 13417 | 185 |
The reign of John VI Cantacuzene 134754 | 209 |
the last | 251 |
the first crisis 13911402 | 296 |
The last reprieve 140225 3 8 | 319 |
The Ottoman revival and the reign of John VIII | 339 |
the fall | 369 |
The last outposts of Byzantium | 394 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 |
| Author | Donald M. Nicol |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0521439914, 9780521439916 |
| Length | 463 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General History / Asia / General History / Europe / Greece History / General History / Middle East / General |
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