Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204 / Charles M. Brand
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1968Description: x, 394 p. ; 25 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - DF601 .B7 1968
The state and the people - inherited problems; the legacy of Manuel Comnenus; the last Comneni - Alexius II and Andronicus I; the reign of Isaac II; towards disaster - Alexius III; the Norman threat - 1185; Frederick Barbarossa's crusade; the tributary state - Henry VI and Byzantium; toward commercial monopoly - the Venetians; Venice's rivals - Genoa and Pisa; the last hope - alliance with the papacy; the failure of Byzantine foreign policy - the fourth crusade at Constantinople.
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