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Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in 1204, variant forms of the empire reconstituted themselves. The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire tells the story, tracing political and military events, religious controversies and economic change. It offers clear, authoritative chapters on the main events and periods, with more detailed chapters on particular outlying regions, neighbouring powers or aspects of Byzantium. With aids such as a glossary, an alternative place-name table and references to English translations of sources, it will be valuable as an introduction. However, it also offers stimulating new approaches and important new findings, making it essential reading for postgraduates and for specialists.

Byzantine Empire --- Empire byzantin --- History --- Histoire --- --Byzance --- --Byzantine Empire --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - History - 527-1081 --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453 --- 527-1081 --- 1081-1453

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Byzantine Empire --- Mediterranean Region --- Romania --- History --- 1081-1453 --- Mediterranean region --- 476-1517 --- To 1711

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Samuel P. Müller offers here the first book-length study of the image of Latins in Byzantine historiography of the long twelfth century, a crucial period that witnessed an unprecedented intensification of Byzantine-Western relations. He notably argues against popular assertions that the image of Latins is "negative" and reflective of steadily mounting tension. Instead, Müller shows that Byzantine historiography can hardly be taken as evidence that the conquest of 1204 was the inevitable outcome of previous interactions. The representation of Latins is complex, ambivalent, and reflective of fickle and multifaceted Byzantine-Western relations. The book also highlights the need to focus on Byzantine identities and crucial, introspective motivations to which the image of Latins is subordinated.

Byzantine Empire --- Romans - Byzantine Empire. --- Romans - Ethnic identity. --- National characteristics, Roman. --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453 - Historiography. --- Byzantine Empire - Foreign relations - 1081-1453. --- Byzantine Empire - Civilization - Roman influences. --- Romans

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In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests, first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later when political disunity, fiscal mismanagement, and defeat at the hands of the Seljuks in the east and the Normans in the west not only spelled the end of Byzantium's historical dominance of southern Italy, the Balkans, Caucasus, and northern Mesopotamia, but also threatened its very survival. Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood offers new interpretations of key topics relevant to Medieval history. The narrative is in 3 parts: the first covers the years 955-1025, a period of imperial conquest and consolidation of authority under the emperor Basil. The second (1025-1059) examines the dispersal of centralized authority in Constantinople as well as the emergence of new foreign enemies (Pechenegs, Seljuks, Normans). The last section chronicles the spectacular collapse of the empire during the second half of the eleventh century, concluding with a look at the First Crusade and its consequences for Byzantine relations with the powers of Western Europe.

Byzantine Empire --- History --- 527-1453. --- Byzantine Empire. --- 527-1453 --- Byzance --- Byzantine Empire - History - 527-1081 --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453

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Greece --- Byzantine Empire --- History --- Civilization --- Greece, Medieval --- Medieval Greece --- Civilization. --- Greece - History - 323-1453 --- Byzantine Empire - History - 1081-1453 --- Greece - Civilization