The Byzantine Empire 1025-1204: A political history

Introduction: A Note on the Sources. 1. Recent Work (1025-1119). 2. Basil II and his legacy. 3. Byzantium's place in the World, 1025-1071. 4. Byzantium 1041-1071: the search for a new political order. 5. Economy and society in eleventh-century Byzantium. 6. Intellectual currents in eleventh-century Byzantium. 7. The rise of the house of Comnenus. 8. Alexius I Comnenus and the restoration of the Empire. 9. Alexius I Comnenus and the west. Part II 1118-1204. 10. Recent Work (1118-1204). 11. John II Comnenus. 12. The foreign policy of Manuel I Comnenus. 13. Manuel Comnenus and the Latins. 14. The government of Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180): court, church and politics. 15. Capital and provinces. 16. Byzantium 1180-1203: the failure of the Comnenian system. 17. The fall of Constantinople and the fourth crusade. References. Bibliography. Maps. Index.