Brand, Charles M.  <br/><br/>
Byzantium confronts the West, 1180-1204  / 
Charles M. Brand 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :   Harvard University Press,   1968 
 - x, 394 p.   ;   25 cm. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations -- 1081-1453.Diplomatic relations.Byzantine Empire.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DF601   / .B7 1968