The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THEBYZANTINE EMPIRE c. 500–1492
CONTENTS
MAPS
ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLES
PREFACE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PERIODISATION AND THE CONTENTS
OF THIS BOOK
OTHER ROUTES TO BYZANTIUM
SMOOTHING THE WAY AND SHORT-CUTS
TO BYZANTIUM: TEXTS IN TRANSLATION
I
THE EARLIER EMPIRE c. 500–c. 700
1 JUSTINIAN AND HIS LEGACY (500–600)
2a
EASTERN NEIGHBOURS: PERSIA AND THE
SASANIAN MONARCHY (224–651)
2b
EASTERN NEIGHBOURS: ARMENIA (400–600)
2c
EASTERN NEIGHBOURS: 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
13
EQUILIBRIUM TO EXPANSION (886–1025)
14
WESTERN APPROACHES (900–1025)
15
BYZANTIUM AND SOUTHERN ITALY
(876–1000)
16
BELLE ´EPOQUE 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
20a AFTER THE FOURTH CRUSADE: THE GREEK RUMP STATES AND THE RECOVERYOF BYZANTIUM
20b
AFTER THE FOURTH CRUSADE: 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
ALTERNATIVE PLACE NAMES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX