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9780511523182
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The reign of Manuel I (1143–1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the first devoted to Manuel's reign for over eighty years, re-evaluates the emperor and his milieu in the light of recent scholarship. It shows that his foreign policy was a natural response to the western crusading movement and the expansionism of the German emperor Frederick Barbarossa. It also shows that what he ruled was more than the impoverished rump of a once great empire, or a society whose development had been arrested by a repressive regime. The twelfth century is presented here as a distinctive, creative phase in Byzantine history, when the empire maintained existing traditions and trends while adapting to a changing world
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Introduction. Problems and sources -- 1. The Comnenian empire between East and West -- 2. Constantinople and the provinces -- 3. The Comnenian system -- 4. Government -- 5. The guardians of Orthodoxy -- 6. The emperor and his image -- Appendix 1. The poems of 'Manganeios Prodromos' -- Appendix 2. Lay officials in synodal lists of the Comnenian period -- Appendix 3. Magnate 'patrons' under Manuel named in verse collections
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521305716
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521526531
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Print version ISBN 9780521305716
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511523182
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