The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453

Minor wear. Name on title-page. VG. Textual maps. Byzantine Empire Cambridge University Press Cambridge (1993) 2nd Edition orig. wrappers 23x15cm, xv,463 pp., PAPERBACK. Contents: The Byzantine empire after the Fourth Crusade; The Empire in exile and its restoration; The Problems of the restored Empire: the reign of Michael VIII Palaiologos, 1261-82 ; The price of survival ; The battle of wits between east and west ; The Byzantine dilemma in the thirteenth century ; Byzantium as a second-rate Power: the reign of Andronikos II Palaiologos,1282-1321 ; The restoration of orthodoxy ; Symptoms and causes of decline ; The failure to find a cure ; The nature of the enemy ; The Mortal Illness of Byzantium: the age of civil wars, 1321-54: ; The question of the succession and the first civil war ; The reign of Andronikos III, 1328-41 ; The second civil war, 1341-47 ; The reign of John VI Cantacuzene, 1347-54 ; Byzantium as a vassal of the Turks: the last hundred years, 1354-1453 ; The reign of John V Palaiologos, 1354-91 ; The reign of Manuel II: the first crisis, 1391-1402 ; The last reprieve, 1402-25 ; The Ottoman revival and the reign of John VIII Palaiologos, 1425-48; Constantine XI and Mehmed II: The fall of Constantinople, 1448-53 ; The last outposts of Byzantium.