Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; Map: Epiros in the fourteenth century; Introduction; 1. The restored Despotate 1267–1285; 2. Epiros between Italy and Byzantium 1285–1306; 3. French, Byzantines and Venetians in Epiros 1294–1318; 4. The Italian inheritance: the Orsini family 1318–1337; 5. The Byzantine restoration 1337–1348; 6. The Serbian occupation 1348–1359; 7. The Serbian Despotate of Ioannina and the Albanian Despotate of Arta 1359–1384; 8. The Italian restoration: Esau Buondelmonti and Carlo Tocco 1384–1411; 9. The reunited Despotate 1411–1429; 10. The Turkish conquest and the end of the Despotate 1429–1479; 11. The administration and the economy; 12. The church and cultural life; Epilogue; Genealogical tables; Bibliography; Index.

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The Despotate of Epiros illuminates part of Byzantine history and of the history of Greece in the Middle Ages.