Nevra Necipoglu

Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins

Politics and Society in the Late Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 759g
• ISBN-13: 9780521877381
• ISBN-10: 0521877385
• Artikelnr.: 25854543

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Political Setting: 1. The topic and the sources;
2. The shrinking Empire and the Byzantine dilemma between East and West
after the Fourth Crusade; Part II. Thessalonike: 3. Social organization,
historical developments, and political attitudes in Thessalonike: an
overview (1382-1430); 4. Byzantine Thessalonike (1382-7 and 1403-23); 5.
Thessalonike under foreign rule; Part III. Constantinople: 6. The Byzantine
court and the Ottomans: conflict and accommodation; 7. The first challenge:
Bayezid I's siege of Constantinople (1394-1402); 8. From recovery to
subjugation: the last fifty years of Byzantine rule in Constantinople
(1403-53); Part IV. The Despotate of the Morea: 9. The early years of
Palaiologan rule in the Morea (1382-1407); 10. The final years of the
Byzantine Morea (1407-60); Conclusion; Appendix 1. Archontes of
Thessalonike (14th-15th cents.); Appendix 2. 'Nobles' and 'small nobles' of
Thessalonike (1425); Appendix 3. Constantinopolitan merchants in Badoer's
account book (1436-40); Appendix 4. Members of the Senate of Constantinople
cited in the synodal tome of August 1409; Appendix 5. Some Greek refugees
in Italian territories after 1453.