The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453

Abstract

1. The Byzantine empire after the Fourth Crusade 2. The empire in exile and its restoration Part I. The Problems of the Restored Empire: the Reign of Michael VIII Palaiologos, 1261-82: 3. The price of survival 4. The battle of wits between east and west 5. The Byzantine dilemma in the thirteenth century Part II. Byzantium as a Second-rate Power: the Reign of Andronikos II Palaiologos,1282-1321: 6. The restoration of orthodoxy 7. Symptoms and causes of decline 8. The failure to find a cure 9. The nature of the enemy Part III. The Mortal Illness of Byzantium: the Age of Civil Wars, 1321-54: 10. The question of the succession and the first civil war 11. The reign of Andronikos III, 1328-41 12. The second civil war, 1341-47 13. The reign of John VI Cantacuzene, 1347-54 Part IV. Byzantium as a Vassal of the Turks: the Last Hundred Years, 1354-1453: 14. The reign of John V Palaiologos, 1354-91 15. The reign of Manuel II: the first crisis, 1391-1402 16. The last reprieve, 1402-25 17. The Ottoman revival and the reign of John VIII Palaiologos, 1425-48 18 Constantine XI and Mehmed II: The fall of Constantinople, 1448-53 19. The last outposts of Byzantium Bibliography.

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