The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, c. 500 - 1492

Contents
Maps
Illustrations
Tables
Dedication
Preface
Preface to the paperback edition
General Introduction
	i Approaching Byzantium
	ii Periodisation and the contents of this book
	iii Other routes to Byzantium
	iv Smoothing the way and short-cuts to Byzantium: texts in translation
Part I. The Earlier Empire, c. 500 - c. 700
	1 Justinian and his legacy (500–600)
	2 Eastern neighbours
		2a Persia and the Sasanian monarchy (224–651)
		2b Armenia (400–600)
		2c The Arabs to the time of the Prophet
	3 Western approaches (500–600)
	4 Byzantium transforming (600–700)
Part II. The Middle Empire, c. 700 - 1204
	5 State of emergency (700–850)
	6 After iconoclasm (850–886)
	7 Religious missions
	8 Armenian neighbours (600–1045)
	9 Confronting Islam: emperors versus caliphs (641–c. 850)
	10 Western approaches (700–900)
	11 Byzantine Italy (680–876)
	12 The middle Byzantine economy (600–1204)
	13 Equilibrium to expansion (886–1025)
	14 Western approaches (900–1025)
	15 Byzantium and southern Italy (876–1000)
	16 Belle époque or crisis? (1025–1118)
	17 The empire of the Komnenoi (1118–1204)
	18 Balkan borderlands (1018–1204)
	19 Raiders and neighbours: the Turks (1040–1304)
Part III. The Byzantine Lands in the Later Middle Ages, 1204 - 1492
	20 After the Fourth Crusade
		20a The Greek rump states and the recovery of Byzantium
		20b The Latin empire of Constantinople and the Frankish states
	21 Balkan powers: Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria (1200–1300)
	22 The Palaiologoi and the world around them (1261–1400)
	23 Latins in the Aegean and the Balkans (1300–1400)
	24 The Roman orthodox world (1393–1492)
Glossary (including some proper names)
Genealogical tables and lists of rulers
List of alternative place names
Bibliography
Picture Acknowledgements
Index