Byzantium, 1180-1204
Subtitle: 'the sad quarter of a century?'
By: edited by Alicia Simpson
Contributors: Simpson, Alicia J., editor; Institouto Historikōn Ereunōn
Series: International symposium -- 22; Diethnē symposia (Institouto Vyzantinōn Ereunōn) -- 22.
Publisher: National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research, Section of Byzantine Research
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9789609538374
Subjects: Congresses; History
Other titles: Byzantium, Eleven eighty -- Twelve-o-four
Notes: Proceedings of conference held June 20, 2014 at Institouto Historikōn Ereunōn, Athens.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Perceptions and interpretations of the late twelfth century in modern histoiography / Alicia Simpson; title: Stronger than it appears? : Byzantium and its European hinterland after the death of Manuel I Komnenos / Vlada Stanković; title: The Byzantine-Seljuk border in times of trouble : Laodikeia in 1174-1204 / Dimitri Koroneinikov; title: The fate of German-Byzantine alliance in the late twelfth century / Telemachos Lounghis; title: Political and constitutional crisis at the end of the twelth century / Demetrios Kyritses; title: The anatomy of a failed coup : the abortive uprising of John the Fat (31 July 1200) / Michael Angold; title: 'From Tempe to Sparta' : power and contestation prior to the Latin conquest of 1204 / Ilias Anagnostakis; title: Sybaris on the Bosphoros : luxury, corruption and the Byzantine State under the Angeloi (1185-1203) / Kostis Smyrlis; title: Coinage and the economy at the end of the twelfth century : an assessment / Pagona Papadopoulou; title: Money and the aristocracy (1180-1204) / Paul Magdalino; title: Private investment in trade in the final years of the twelfth century / Maria Gierolymatou; title: Literary allusions to trade and merchants : the 'great merchant' in late twelfth-century Byzantium / Gerasimos Merianos; title: A resting place for 'the first of the angels' : the Michaelion of Sosthenion / Kallirroe Linardou; title: A gem of artistic ekphrasis : Nicholas Mesarites' description of the mosaics in the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople / Nektarios Zarras.