Byzantium, 1180-1204 : 'the sad quarter of a century'?
| Full title: |
Byzantium, 1180-1204 : 'the sad quarter of a century'? / edited by Alicia Simpson. |
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| Alternative titles: |
Perceptions and interpretations of the late twelfth century in modern histoiography. Byzantine-Seljuk border in times of trouble. Sybaris on the Bosphoros, luxury, corruption and the Byzantine State under the Angeloi (1185-1203). Coinage and the economy at the end of the twelfth century. Money and the aristocracy (1180-1204). Gem of artistic ekphrasis, Nicholas Mesarites' description of the mosaics in the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople. |
| Main Authors: | Simpson, Alicia J., (Author, Editor), Kyritsēs, Dēmētrēs S., (Author), Smyrlis, Kostis, (Author), Papadopoulou, Pagona, (Author), Magdalino, Paul, (Author), Zarras, Nektarios, (Author) |
| Corporate Author: | Ethnikon Hidryma Ereunōn (Greece), Institouto Historikōn Ereunōn. |
| Format: | Book |
Table of Contents:
- Perceptions and interpretations of the late twelfth century in modern histoiography / Alicia Simpson
- Stronger than it appears? : Byzantium and its European hinterland after the death of Manuel I Komnenos / Vlada Stanković
- The Byzantine-Seljuk border in times of trouble : Laodikeia in 1174-1204 / Dimitri Koroneinikov
- The fate of German-Byzantine alliance in the late twelfth century / Telemachos Lounghis
- Political and constitutional crisis at the end of the twelth century / Demetrios Kyritses
- The anatomy of a failed coup : the abortive uprising of John the Fat (31 July 1200) / Michael Angold
- 'From Tempe to Sparta' : power and contestation prior to the Latin conquest of 1204 / Ilias Anagnostakis
- Sybaris on the Bosphoros : luxury, corruption and the Byzantine State under the Angeloi (1185-1203) / Kostis Smyrlis
- Coinage and the economy at the end of the twelfth century : an assessment / Pagona Papadopoulou
- Money and the aristocracy (1180-1204) / Paul Magdalino
- Private investment in trade in the final years of the twelfth century / Maria Gierolymatou
- Literary allusions to trade and merchants : the 'great merchant' in late twelfth-century Byzantium / Gerasimos Merianos
- A resting place for 'the first of the angels' : the Michaelion of Sosthenion / Kallirroe Linardou
- A gem of artistic ekphrasis : Nicholas Mesarites' description of the mosaics in the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople / Nektarios Zarras.