Byzantium and the Crusades / Jonathan Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Jonathan, author.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades.

Byzantine Empire--History--1081-1453.

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 306 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"Jonathan Harris's classic text chronologically surveys Byzantine history in the time of the Crusades. The book reveals the attitudes of the Byzantine ruling elites towards the Crusades and their ultimate inability to adapt to the challenges this presented. Using evidence amassed in a wealth of primary sources, Harris successfully makes the point that Byzantine interactions with Western Europe, the Crusades and the crusader states is best understood in the nature of the Byzantine Empire and the ideology which underpinned it, rather than in any generalised hostility between the peoples."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

The empire of Christ (900-1050)

The power behind the throne (900-1050)

Response to crisis (1050-95)

The passage of the First Crusade (1096-9)

Jerusalem and Antioch (1100-43)

The friend of the Latins (1143-80)

Andronikos the tyrant (1180-5)

Iron not gold (1185-92)

Paralysis and extortion (1192-1204)

The rivers of Babylon (1204-61)

And so the land is lost! (1261-91)

Epilogue: the impact

Appendix 1: Benzo of Alba's account of Constantine X's embassy of 1062

Appendix 2: Letter of Bohemond to Pope Paschal II (c. 1106-8)

Appendix 3: Letter of Pope Innocent II to Latins serving in the army of John II (28 March 1138)

Appendix 4: Letter of Manuel I to Louis VII (August 1146)

Appendix 5: Letter of Pope Alexander III to Peter, Cardinal Priest of San Crisogono, legate in France (19 January 1176)

Appendix 6: Otto of St Blasien on Henry VI's preparations for a crusade (1196)

Appendix 7: Envoys of Michael VIII promise aid for the Holy Land (July 1274)

Appendix 8: Byzantium and the Crusades in fiction.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781350199767

1350199761

9781350199774

135019977X

OCLC:

1301479794

Publisher Number:

99993581000