The late medieval Balkans
Subtitle: a critical survey from the late twelfth century to the Ottoman Conquest
By: John V.A. Fine, Jr.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 683
ISBN-13: 9780472100798
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula -- History.
Description: xvi, 683 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 633-643.
Maps on lining papers.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements … vii; title: Note on Transliteration and Names … ix; title: Contents … xi; title: ◦; title: 1. THE BALKANS IN THE LATE TWELFTH CENTURY … 1; title: ◦; title: Stefan Nemanja Acquires Power in Serbia … 2; title: Byzantine Difficulties in the Balkans under Andronicus I … 6; title: Serbian Expansion and Military Activities, 1180-90	… 7; title: Isaac Angelus Assumes Power in Byzantium and Expels the Normans … 9; title: Bulgarian Uprising, 1185-88 … 10; title: Bosnia and Hum to ca. 1198 … 17; title: Croatia	 … 21; title: The Third Crusade (1189) … 23; title: Serbs and Bulgarians, 1190-95 … 25; title: Ivanko and Dobromir Chrysos … 28; title: Kalojan Assumes Power in Bulgaria, 1197… 29; title: The Byzantine Triumph over Ivanko	… 30; title: The Byzantine Treaty with Kalojan … 31; title: Chrysos and Kamytzes … 32; title: Greece at the End of the Twelfth Century … 33; title: Abdication of Stefan Nemanja … 38; title: Rivalry between Stefan and Vukan in Serbia … 41; title: Alliances and Church Policy Involving Zeta and Bosnia … 43; title: The Bosnian Church Council of 1203 … 47; title: Vukan Seizes Raška … 47; title: Raška and Zeta, 1206/07 to ca. 1216 … 49; title: The Region of Albania in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries … 51; title: Hum at the End of the Twelfth and the Beginning of the Thirteenth Centuries … 52; title: Kalojan on the Eve of the Fourth Crusade … 54; title: Notes … 56; title: ◦; title: 2. THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND ITS AFTERMATH … 60; title: ◦; title: Background for the Fourth Crusade … 60; title: The Conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders … 62; title: Boniface’s Conquests and his Vassals … 64; title: The Greek State of Epirus … 65; title: Villehardouin in the Morea … 69; title: Latin Religious Policy in the Conquered Greek Lands … 76; title: Baldwin and Kalojan in Thrace … 80; title: Kalojan’s Activities after April 1205 … 83; title: The Kingdom of Thessaloniki after Boniface’s Death … 87; title: Nicea Proclaims Imperial Status … 90; title: Boril in Bulgaria and Balkan Affairs, 1207-13 … 91; title: Boril’s 1213 Alliance with the Latins and the Conclusion of his Reign … 100; title: The 1214 War, the End of Strez, and the Division of his Lands … 103; title: John Asen Overthrows Boril … 106; title: Serbia in the Second Decade of the Thirteenth Century … 106; title: Notes … 109; title: ◦; title: 3. THE FIRST HALF OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY … 112; title: ◦; title: Theodore of Epirus’ First Decade, 1215-24 … 112; title: Quarrel between the Churches of Epirus and Nicea … 114; title: Creation of an Autocephalous Serbian Church, 1219 … 116; title: Theodore Acquires Thessaloniki and Coronation … 119; title: Theodore's Ambitions and Actions, 1225-30 … 122; title: The Battle of Klokotnica (1230) and its Results for Bulgaria … 124; title: Thessaloniki-Epirus after Klokotnica … 126; title: Bulgarian-Hungarian Relations … 128; title: Bulgarian-Nicean Relations … 129; title: Greek Affairs, 1237-42 … 133; title: Serbia under Radoslav and Vladislav … 135; title: Zeta in the Second Quarter of the Thirteenth Century … 137; title: Hum in the Second Quarter of the Thirteenth Century … 142; title: Bosnia in the Second Quarter of the Thirteenth Century … 143; title: Croatia in the Second Quarter of the Thirteenth Century … 149; title: Notes … 153; title: ◦; title: 4. THE SECOND HALF OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY … 154; title: ◦; title: Bulgaria upon John Asen II’s Death … 154; title: Nicea and Epirus, 1246-61 … 156; title: The Nicean Recovery of Constantinople … 165; title: The Struggle between Franks and Byzantines for the Morea … 165; title: The Struggle for Northern Greece … 168; title: Charles of Anjou Enters into Greek Affairs … 170; title: Bulgaria between Byzantium, Hungary, and the Tatars, 1256-77 … 170; title: Byzantium’s Efforts to Defend itself against Charles of Anjou … 184; title: Civil War in Bulgaria, 1278-84 … 195; title: Serbia under King Uroš, 1243-76 … 199; title: Hungary and Croatia … 204; title: Notes … 214; title: ◦; title: 5. THE BALKANS IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY … 217; title: ◦; title: Serbia at the End of the Thirteenth Century … 217; title: Bulgaria at the End of the Thirteenth Century … 224; title: Byzantium and Greece in the Early Fourteenth Century … 230; title: The Byzantine Civil War between Andronicus II and Andronicus III … 250; title: Thessaly and Epirus under Andronicus III … 252; title: Serbia in the Early Fourteenth Century … 255; title: Serbia Loses its Part of Hum … 266; title: Vidin in the First Quarter of the Fourteenth Century … 268; title: Bulgaria in the 1320s … 269; title: Serbia, Bulgaria, and Byzantium, 1324-32 … 270; title: Bosnia from the 1280s to the 1320s … 275; title: Notes … 285; title: ◦; title: 6. THE BALKANS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY … 286; title: ◦; title: Dušan and Byzantium to 1334 … 286; title: Dušan and Hungary … 288; title: Dušan, the Empire, and Albania … 289; title: Dušan in 1340 … 290; title: Turkish Activities in the Balkans … 291; title: The Byzantine Civil War between Cantacuzenus and the Constantinopolitan Regency … 292; title: The Serbs Are Drawn into the Byzantine Civil War … 296; title: Despot John Oliver … 298; title: Serbian Participation in the Byzantine Civil War … 300; title: Cantacuzenus’ Triumph … 307; title: Dušan’s Coronation (April 1346) … 309; title: Administration of Dušan’s State … 310; title: Dušan’s Law Code … 314; title: Serbia’s Peasants … 317; title: Dušan Conquers Thessaly and Epirus	 … 320; title: The Condition of the Byzantine Empire in the Middle of the Fourteenth Century … 321; title: Dušan, Byzantium, and Bosnia in 1350 … 322; title: Civil War Again in Byzantium … 325; title: Manuel Cantacuzenus in the Morea … 327; title: Greek Landholding, Peasants, and Lords … 329; title: Dušan’s Last Years and Death … 334; title: Hungary and Venice Struggle for Dalmatia … 337; title: Notes … 343; title: ◦; title: 7. THE BALKANS FROM DUSAN'S DEATH (1355) TO THE EVE OF KOSOVO (1389) … 345; title: ◦; title: Initial Territorial Losses for the Serbian Empire after Dušan’s Death … 345; title: Thessaly and Epirus … 346; title: Dušan’s Albanian Lands … 357; title: The Lands that Remained Loyal to Uroš … 358; title: Bulgaria … 366; title: Bosnia: The Early Years of Tvrtko's Reign … 368; title: The Albanian Lands in the 1360s … 370; title: Civil War among the Serbs … 373; title: The Turkish Threat and Uglješa’s Response to It … 377; title: The Battle of Marica and its Aftermath … 379; title: Activities of the Independent Serbian Nobles … 382; title: The End of Nicholas Altomanović … 384; title: Lazar’s Principality … 387; title: The Balšići in the 1370s and 1380s … 389; title: Tvrtko of Bosnia from the 1370s to 1391 … 392; title: Hungarian Civil War … 395; title: Attica, Boeotia, and the Peloponnesus … 398; title: Notes … 404; title: ◦; title: 8. THE BALKANS IN THE LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY … 406; title: ◦; title: The Turks and the Balkans after the Battle of Marica … 406; title: Kosovo … 408; title: Albania and Zeta … 414; title: The Ottoman Conquest of Bulgaria … 422; title: The Battles of Rovine and Nikopolis and their Results … 424; title: Serbian Affairs … 425; title: Affairs in Greece … 427; title: Religion and Culture … 435; title: The Jews in the Balkans … 446; title: Notes … 451; title: ◦; title: 9. THE BALKANS IN THE EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURY … 453; title: ◦; title: Bosnia after the Death of Tvrtko … 453; title: Religion and Culture inside Bosnia … 481; title: Dalmatia … 488; title: Croatia … 495; title: The Battle of Ankara … 499; title: Serbia after Ankara … 500; title: The Ottoman Civil War … 503; title: Stefan Lazarević and Hungary … 509; title: Albania and Zeta after Ankara … 510; title: Stefan Lazarević’s Last Years in Serbia … 522; title: George Branković’s Succession … 526; title: Zeta and Albania, 1427-30 … 528; title: Serbia in the 1430s … 529; title: Zeta in the Late 1430s and Early 1440s … 531; title: Albania in the 1430s … 535; title: Byzantium and the Turks after Mehemmed I’s Death (1421) … 536; title: The Morea and Non-Turkish Greece … 538; title: Notes … 546; title: ◦; title: 10. THE BALKANS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY … 548; title: ◦; title: The Crusade of Varna 1443-44 … 548; title: Hungary and Croatia after Varna … 551; title: Serbia after Varna … 554; title: Skanderbeg’s Revolt in Albania … 556; title: George Branković and Zeta … 558; title: Affairs in Greece from 1443 … 561; title: The Fall of Serbia … 568; title: Bosnia from 1443 … 577; title: Croatia after 1463 … 590; title: Albania and Zeta after 1455 … 595; title: Explanation for the Ottoman Success … 604; title: Notes … 611; title: ◦; title: APPENDIX: MEDIEVAL RULERS … 613; title: ◦; title: Byzantine Emperors from 1143 to 1453 … 613; title: Latin Emperors of Constantinople … 614; title: Rulers of Epirus … 614; title: Rulers of the Morea … 614; title: Greek Despots of the Morea … 615; title: Latin Rulers of Athens and Thebes … 615; title: Bulgarian Tsars … 616; title: Rulers of Serbia … 617; title: Rulers of Zeta … 617; title: Rulers of Bosnia … 618; title: The Kosača Rulers of Hum/Hercegovina … 618; title: Kings of Hungary … 618; title: Ottoman Sultans … 619; title: ◦; title: Glossary of Terms … 621; title: Sources and Authors of Sources Referred to in the Text … 629; title: Selected Bibliography … 633; title: Index … 645