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This work provides a clear and comprehensive chronology of the Eastern Roman Empire from the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD to the extinction of the last Byzantine principality in 1461 AD, ultimately shedding light on a once-obscure period of Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan history whose events still resonate in world politics.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Maps Glossary Introduction; J.Harris Prelude to Creation of Empire c.274-328 From Formal Dedication of Constantinople 330-476 477-609 610-867 868-1066 1067-1204 1205-1261 1262-1502 Sovereigns of the Byzantine World Index
About the author
TIMOTHY VENNING is a freelance researcher and has published Cromwellian Foreign Policy (Macmillan) and also worked on the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press).
JONATHAN HARRIS is Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications include Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400-1520 (1995), Byzantium and the Crusades (2003) and, as editor, Palgrave Advances in Byzantine History (2005). His research interests centre on the relations between Byzantium and Western Europe, particularly during the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance.
Summary
This work provides a clear and comprehensive chronology of the Eastern Roman Empire from the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD to the extinction of the last Byzantine principality in 1461 AD, ultimately shedding light on a once-obscure period of Eastern Mediterranean and Balkan history whose events still resonate in world politics.
