Table of Contents

General introduction Jonathan Shepard; Part I. The Earlier Empire (c.500–c.700): 1. Justinian and his legacy (500–600) Andrew Louth; 2. Eastern neighbours: a. Persia and the Sasanian monarchy (224–651) Zeev Rubin; b. Armenia (400–600) R. W. Thomson; c. The Arabs to the time of the Prophet Lawrence I. Conrad; 3. Western approaches (500–600) John Moorhead; 4. Byzantium transforming (600–700) Andrew Louth; Part II. The Middle Empire (c.700–1204): 5. State of emergency (700–850) Marie-France Auzépy; 6. After iconoclasm (850–886) Shaun Tougher; 7. Religious missions Sergey A. Ivanov; 8. Armenian neighbours (600–1045) T. W. Greenwood; 9. Confronting Islam: emperors versus caliphs (641–c.850) Walter E. Kaegi; 10. Western approaches (700–900) Michael McCormick; 11. Byzantine Italy (680–876) Thomas S. Brown; 12. The middle Byzantine economy (600–1204) Mark Whittow; 13. Equilibrium to expansion (886–1025) Jonathan Shepard; 14. Western approaches (900–1025) Jonathan Shepard; 15. Byzantium and southern Italy (876–1000) G. A. Loud; 16. Belle époque or crisis? (1025–1118) Michael Angold; 17. The empire of the Komnenoi (1118–1204) Paul Magdalino; 18. Balkan borderlands (1018–1204) Paul Stephenson; 19. Raiders and neighbours: the Turks (1040–1304) D. A. Korobeinikov; Part III. The Byzantine Lands in the Later Middle Ages (1204–1492): 20. After the Fourth Crusade: a. The Greek rump states and the recovery of Byzantium Michael Angold; b. The Latin empire of Constantinople and the Frankish states David Jacoby; 21. Balkans powers: Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria (1200–1300) Alain Ducellier; 22. The Palaiologoi and the world around them (1261–1400) Angeliki E. Laiou; 23. Latins in the Aegean and the Balkans (1300–1400) Michel Balard; 24. The Roman orthodox world (1393–1492) Anthony Bryer.

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A history of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire.

About the Author

Jonathan Shepard was for many years a Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge, and was a Fellow of Selwyn College and of Peterhouse. He is the co-editor (with Simon Franklin) of Byzantine Diplomacy (1992), co-author (also with Simon Franklin) of The Emergence of Rus, 750-1200 (1996), author of Nespokoyni s'sedi: b'lgaro-vizantiyska konfrontatsiya, obmen i s'zhitelstvo prez srednite vekove [Uneasy neighbours: Bulgaro-Byzantine confrontation, exchange and co-existence in the Middle Ages] (2007) and editor of The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia (2007). Shepard is Doctor Honoris Causa of St Kliment Ohrid University in Sofia.

Reviews

"A fine scholarly accomplishment. The editor's long introduction sets the stage for the contributions that follow. The volume is separated into four segments: the notion of Byzantium, periodization, an ap[preciation of cultural and societal approaches to Byzantium, and a discussion of sources in translation. The book's three parts correspond to the apex, transformation, and fall of the Byzantine Empire....The book has a fine bibliography, illustrations, and map selection. Recommended."
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