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"This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time of the Crusades. It argues that one of the main keys to Byzantine interaction with Western Europe, the Crusades and the crusader states can be found in the nature of the Byzantine Empire and the ideology which show more underpinned it, rather than in any generalised hostility between the peoples. Taking recent scholarship into account, this new edition includes an updated notes section and bibliography, as well as significant additions to the text: new material on the role of religious differences after 1100, a detailed discussion of economic, social and religious changes that took place in 12th-century Byzantine relations with the west, in-depth coverage of Byzantium and the Crusades during the 13th century, new maps, illustrations, genealogical tables and a timeline of key dates. Byzantium and the Crusades is an important contribution to the historiography by a major scholar in the field that should be read by anyone interested in Byzantine and crusader history"-- show lessTags
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Easy to read history of the Byzantine Empire to its fall in 1453. This is a great starting point for the beginner to Byzantine studies.
Mr. Harris is of the opinion that the attack on Constantinople by the 4th Crusade was motivated by the treatment of the German contingent of the 3rd Crusade. He has assembled a good deal of evidence. This theme is further explored by Lilie in "Byzantium and the Crusader States."
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Jonathan Harris is Professor of the History of Byzantium at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is the author of Byzantium and the Crusades (2nd ed., 2014) and The End of Byzantium (2010).
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- Canonical title
- Byzantium and the Crusades
- People/Characters
- Enrico Dandolo
- Important places
- Byzantium
- Dedication
- For Catalina and Simon
- Original language
- English
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 949.503 — History & geography History of Europe Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria Greece and the Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire -- 323-1453 Byzantine decline 1057-1204
- LCC
- D157 .H323 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) Medieval history Crusades
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- English
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