Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Maps Glossary Introduction; J.Harris Prelude to Creation of Empire c.274-328 From Formal Dedication of Constantinople 330-476 477-609 610-867 868-1066 1067-1204 1205-1261 1262-1502 Sovereigns of the Byzantine World Index

About the Author

TIMOTHY VENNING is a freelance researcher and has published Cromwellian Foreign Policy (Macmillan) and also worked on the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press). JONATHAN HARRIS is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications include Greek Emigres in the West, 1400-1520 (1995), Byzantium and the Crusades (2003) and, as editor, Palgrave Advances in Byzantine History (2005). His research interests centre on the relations between Byzantium and Western Europe, particularly during the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance.