Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins : politics and society in the late empire / Nevra Necipoğlu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Necipoğlu, Nevra, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Byzantine Empire.

Political culture.

East and West.

Byzantine Empire--Politics and government--1081-1453.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--History--Palaeologi dynasty, 1259-1448.

Byzantine Empire--Social conditions.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Byzantine Empire--Relations--Turkey.

Byzantine Empire--Relations--Europe, Western.

Thessalonikē (Greece)--History.

Thessalonikē (Greece).

Istanbul (Turkey)--History.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--History.

Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Byzantium between the Ottomans & the Latins

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a detailed analysis of Byzantine political attitudes towards the Ottomans and western Europeans during the critical last century of Byzantium. The book covers three major regions of the Byzantine Empire - Thessalonike, Constantinople, and the Morea - where the political orientations of aristocrats, merchants, the urban populace, peasants, and members of ecclesiastical and monastic circles are examined against the background of social and economic conditions. Through its particular focus on the political and religious dispositions of individuals, families and social groups, the book offers an original view of late Byzantine politics and society that is not found in conventional narratives. Drawing on a wide range of Byzantine, western and Ottoman sources, it authoritatively illustrates how late Byzantium was drawn into an Ottoman system in spite of the westward-looking orientation of the majority of its ruling elite.

Contents:

Part I, Introduction and political setting: The topic and the sources ; The shrinking empire and the Byzantine dilemma between East and West after the Fourth Crusade

Part II, Thessalonike: Social organization, historical developments, and political attitudes in Thessalonike, an overview (1382-1430) ; Byzantine Thessalonike (1382-1387 and 1403-1423) ; Thessalonike under foreign rule

Part III, Constantinople: The Byzantine court and the Ottomans: conflict and accommodation ; The first challenge: Bayezid I's siege of Constantinople (1394-1402) ; From recovery to subjugation: the last fifty years of Byzantine rule in Constantinople (1403-1453)

Part IV, The Despotate of the Morea: The early years of Palaiologan rule in the Morea (1382-1407) ; The final years of the Byzantine Morea (1407-1460).

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-338) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19882-8

1-107-40388-X

1-282-10402-0

9786612104022

0-511-57672-2

0-511-51807-2

0-511-51576-6

0-511-51453-0

0-511-51704-1

OCLC:

609833407