By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium
By 1400, the once-mighty Byzantine Empire stood on the verge of destruction. Most of its territories had been lost to the Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople was under close blockade. Against all odds, Byzantium lingered on for another fifty years until 1453, when the Ottomans dramatically toppled...
This interesting study, full of analysis and insight, traces the fortunes of the Byzantine Empire in the fifteenth century. The famous siege of 1453 is covered, but the focus is much more on the mix of diplomacy and accomodation which characterised Christian and Muslim relations for much of ...
In this sense, the reform’s demise should be seen in the context of infighting within the byzantine Qing court as well as Japan and Russia’s struggle for influence in China. During the Wuxu Reform, the official policy of Japan was to monitor the changing balance of power in the u...
The relations between the Serbs and the Bulgarians had not been at the time determined by their attitude toward the Byzantine Empire which was of the Serbian state, while Bulgaria went through tough period of disintegration of the central power. The internal affaires of those two states ...
This elegant status is based exclusively upon the fact that during the time of the Byzantine Empire, the Constantinople Patriarchate was located in the imperial capital and had greater possibilities for influencing the religious politics of Byzantine emperors. But Byzantium fell 566 years ago, and ...
What happened to the Byzantine Empire in the Fourth Crusade? What happened to Jerusalem during the First Crusade? What Crusade happened around 1144? What was the outcome of the Third Crusade? What was the significance of the Fourth Crusade?
When was the history of the Peloponnesian War written? When did the Athenian Empire end? When did the Battle of Salamis end? When did the Battle of Thermopylae end? When did Athenian democracy end? When did the Greek War of Independence end?
The unification of the Roman and Greek Churches, the end of theByzantine Empire, and the dominion over Jerusalem exercised by the Angevinsovereign after the reconquest of Sicily were to be the most significant actions ofthis benign emperor, whose death in Constantinople would be followed by a ...
¹¹Giventhese problems of sourcesurvival andterminology, awide-ranginginves-tigation into slavery in the last centuries of Roman/Byzantine rule maywellbeim-possible. On the other hand,a“micro-historical”approach that examinesafew in-teresting cases is feasible,although one cannot know if ...