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History of the Byzantine empire
 A.A. Vasiliev
Table of Contents -________________________________________1.The study of Byzantine history.2. The empire from Constantine the Great to JustinianConstantine and ChristianityArianism and the Council of NicaeaThe Church and the state at the end of the fourth centuryTheological disputes and the Third Ecumenical CouncilThe Fourth Ecumenical Council3. Justinian the Great and his successors (518-610) Justin I.The Reign of Justinian and Theodora.The external policy of Justinian and his ideology.Wars with the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Visigoths.The legislative work of Justinian and Tribonian.The ecclesiastical policy of Justinian.Religious problems and the Fifth Ecumenical CouncilThe internal policy of Justinian.Commerce during the reign of Justinian.Immediate successors of Justinian.The Persian wars.Slavs and Avars.Religious problems.Formation of the exarchates and the revolution of 610.The problem of the Slavs in Greece.Literature, learning, and art.
 
 4. The Heraclian epoch (610-717)External ProblemsReligious Policy of the dynastyThe Sixth Ecumenical Council and religious peace.Origin and development of Theme Organization5. The Iconoclastic epoch (717-867)The Isaurian or Syrian Dynasty.The attitude toward Arabs, Bulgarians, and Slavs.The internal activities of the emperors of the Isaurian dynasty.Religious controversies and the first period of Iconoclasm.The Council of 754 and its aftermath.Charles the Great and his significance for the Byzantine Empire.Summary of the activities of the Isaurian dynasty.Successors of the Isaurians and the Phrygian Dynasty (820-67)6. The Macedonian epoch (867-1081)The origin of the dynasty.External affairs of the Macedonian emperors.Relations of the Byzantine Empire with the Bulgarians and Magyars.The Byzantine Empire and Russia.The Patzinak problem.Relations with Italy and western Europe.Social and political developmentsThe time of troubles (1056-81)7. Byzantium and the CrusadesThe Comneni emperors and their foreign policyForeign policy of the AngeliThe Fourth Crusade and ByzantiumInternal affairs under the Comneni and Angeli.8. The Empire of Nicaea (1204-61)New states formed on Byzantine terrirory.Beginnings of the Empire of Nicaea and the Lascarids.Foreign policy of the Lascarids and the restoration of the Byzantine empire.The Seljuq Turks.The Latin Empire. John III Ducas Vatatzes (1222-1254).The Despotat of Epirus and its relation to the Empire of Nicaea.Thessalonica and Nicaea.
 
The role of Bulgaria in the Christian East under Tsar John Asen II.Alliance of John Vatatzes and Frederick II Hohenstaufen.The Mongol invasion and the alliance against the Mongols.Significance of the external policy of John Vatatzes.Theodore and John Lascaris and the restoration of the Byzantine Empire.Ecclesiastical relations with the Nicene and Latin empires.Social and economic conditions in the empire of nicaea.Education, learning, literature, and art.Byzantine feudalism.9. The fall of ByzantiumForeign policy of the Paleologi.General situation in the Empire.The external policy of Michael VIII.The external policy of Byzantium during the reigns of the Andronicoi. John V, John VI Cantacuzene and the apogee of Serbian power.The policies of Byzantium in the fourteenth century.Manuel II (1391-1425) and the Turks. John VIII (1425-48) and the Turkish menace.Constantine XI (1449-53) and the capture of Constantinople.Ecclesiastical problems under the Palaeologi.The Union of Lyons.The Arsenites.The Hesychast movement.The conversion to Catholicism of Emperor John V.The Union of Florence.The question of the Council of St. Sophia.Political and social conditions in the Empire.Learning, literature, science, and artByzantium and the Italian Renaissance.Appendix________________________________________1.The study of Byzantine history.
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09 / 02 / 2010<span class="translation_missing">en_US, this_document_made_it_onto_the</span>Rising List!
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It is the BEST short history of Byzantium

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