Byzantium and the West

Contributors to this volume explore the multi-faceted and multi-layered contact between Byzantium and the West, from the 'schism' of 1054 to the fifteenth century, and evaluate how the interaction between the two sides was shaped by the parallel and often competing influences of perception and reality.

Introduction (by the editors); Part One:Setting the Scene; 1. Anthony Kaldellis, "Keroularios in 1054: Nonconfrontational to the Papal Legates and Loyal to the Emperor"; 2. Michel Balard, "Colonisation and Population Movements in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages"; 3. Sandra Origone, "Genoa and Byzantium: Aspects of a Long Relationship"; Part Two: Byzantium and the West during the Early Crusades; 4. Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki, "Byzantium and the Crusades in the Komnenian Era: Perception and Reality"; 5. Jean-Claude Cheynet, "Some Thoughts on the Relations between Greeks and Latins at the Time of the First and Fourth Crusades"; 6. Jonathan Phillips, "Crusader Perceptions of Byzantium, c.1095 to c.1150"; 7. Angeliki Papageorgiou, "The Perception of Westerners in the Court of John II Komnenos"; 8. Elizabeth Jeffreys, "A Twelfth-Century Perspective on Byzantium's Western Neighbours: The Witness of Manganeios Prodromos"; 9. Catherine Holmes, "De-centring Twelfth-Century Constantinople: Archbishop Eustathios and the Norman Conquest of Thessalonica Revisited"; 10. Michael Angold, "The Fall of Jerusalem in 1187 to Saladin and its Impact on Byzantine Opinion"; Part Three: Cross-cultural Contacts in the Margins of East and West; 11. Eleni Tounta, "Admiral Eugenius of Sicily (12th c.): Court Poetry and Political Propaganda in a Cross-Cultural Environment"; 12. Nikoletta Giantsi, "A Detail of the Third Lateran Council (1179): The Leper King of Jerusalem and the Papal Policy in the East"; 13. Alicia Simpson, "Byzantium and Hungary in the Late Twelfth Century and on the Eve of the Fourth Crusade: Personal Ties and Spheres of Influence"; 14. Ilias Giarenis, "Nicaea and the West (1204-1261): Aspects of Reality and Rhetoric"; 15. Maria Dourou-Eliopoulou, "The Image of the 'Greek' and the Reality of Greco-Latin Interaction in Romania, according to Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-century Latin Sources" ; 16. Nickiforos I. Tsougarakis, "Perceptions of the Greek Clergy and Rite in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Accounts to the Holy Land"; Part Four: The Latins and Late Byzantium: Perceptions and Reality; 17. Theodora Papadopoulou, "The in Byzantine Literature before and after the First Capture of Constantinople (mid-12th to mid-13th c.)"; 18. Nikolaos G. Chrissis, "Worlds Apart? Reconsidering Late Byzantine Identity through the Image of the West"; 19. Sophia Mergiali-Sahas, "In the Face of a Historical Puzzle: Western Adventurers, Friars and Nobility in the Service of Michael VIII Palaiologos (1261-1282)"; 20. Triantafyllitsa Maniati-Kokkini, " ß ß and : Theory and Practice regarding the Integration of Westerners in Late Byzantine Social and Economic Reality"; 21. Christos Makrypoulias, "'Our Engines are Better than Yours': Perception and Reality of Late Byzantine Military Technology"; Index