Title: Byzantium: its internal history and relations with the Muslim world: collected studies
Authors: Vryonis, Speros, 1928-; Anastos, Milton V. 1909-1997.
Publisher: (21a Pembridge Mews, w11 3EQ): Variorum reprints
Year: 1971
Subjects: Byzantine Empire Civilization.; Byzantine Empire Relations Islamic Empire.; Islamic Empire Relations Byzantine Empire.; Byzantine Empire
Contents: Hellas resurgent.--Byzantium: The social basis of decline in the eleventh century.--Byzantine HMOKPATIA and the guilds in the eleventh century.--St. Ionnicius the Great (754-848) and the "Slavs" of Bithynia.--The will of a provincial magnate, Eustathius Boilas (1059).--The question of the Byzantine mines.--An attic hoard of Byzantine gold coins (668-741) from the Thomas Whittemore collection and the numismatic evidence for the urban history of Byzantium.--Review article of Travaux et mémoires, ed. P. Lemerle, vol. 1 (Paris 1965).--Byzantium and Islam, seven-seventeenth century.--Byzantine circus factions and Islamic Futuwwa Organisations (Neaniai, Fityan, Ahdath).--The conditions and cultural significance of the Ottoman conquest in the Balkans.--Seljuk Gulams and the Ottoman Devshirmes.--Isidore Glabas and the Turkish Devshirme.--Review article of B. Papoulia, Ursprung und Wesen der "Knabenlese" im osmanischen Reich (Munich, 1963).