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La Diplomatie byzantine, de l'Empire romain aux confins de l'Europe (Ve-XVe s.) provides twelve articles addressing the manifold aspects of Byzantine diplomacy. Spanning the fifth to fifteenth centuries it focuses both on chronological and thematic aspects of its history.
About the author
Nicolas Drocourt is an Associate Professor of Medieval history at the University of Nantes. He published
Diplomatie sur le Bosphore. Les ambassadeurs étrangers dans l'Empire byzantin des années 640 à 1204 (Leuven, 2015), and numerous articles on Middle Byzantine diplomacy. He also edited or co-edited different volumes on medieval diplomacy, notably
La figure de l'ambassadeur entre mondes éloignés (XIe-XVIe siècle) (Rennes, 2015) and
Themis en diplomatie. Le droit et les arguments juridiques dans les Relations internationales de l'Antiquité tardive à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (Rennes, 2016). He is currently working on the co-edition of
Byzantium and the Latin West (860-1204), to be published by Brill.
Élisabeth Malamut is Professor Emeritus of the University of Aix-Marseille. She is a specialist in the Byzantine Empire. Her research interests focus on island and urban history, holy monks and travelers, diplomatic and cultural relations and on women, especially empresses. She is the author of
Les îles de l'Empire byzantin, VIIIe-XIIe s. (Paris, 1988),
Sur la route des saints byzantins (Paris, 1993),
Alexis Ier Comnène (Paris, 2007). She is currently working on the history of the Byzantine Empire to be published by Humensis.
