The Balkans and the Byzantine World Before and after the Captures of Constantinople, 1204 And 1453.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I IN A WORLD WITHOUT A CENTER: REMAINING BYZANTINE -- CHAPTER 1 BYZANTIUM'S RETREATING BALKAN FRONTIERS DURING THE REIGN OF THE ANGELOI (1185-1203) -- CHAPTER 2 DISCONTINUITY AND CONTINUITY OF BYZANTINE LITERARY TRADITION AFTER THE CRUSADERS' CAPTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER 3 THE DIVIDED EMPIRE -- CHAPTER 4 THE FATE OF THE PALAIOLOGAN ARISTOCRACY OF THESSALONIKE AFTER 1423 -- CHAPTER 5 DONOR PORTRAITS IN THE STATE OF EPIRUS -- CHAPTER 6 MONASTIC FOUNDATION LEGENDS IN EPIRUS -- PART II THE PERIPHERIES: IN THE SHADOW OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND ITS INFLUENCE -- CHAPTER 7 STUDENICA AND THE LIFE GIVING TREE -- CHAPTER 8 RETHINKING THE POSITION OF SERBIA WITHIN BYZANTINE OIKOUMENE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER 9 THE SYNODICON OF ORTHODOXY IN BAR MS. S1. 307 AND THE HAGIORITICON GRAMMA OF THE YEAR 1344 -- CHAPTER 10 MOUNT ATHOS AND THE BYZANTINE-SLAVIC TRADITION IN WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA AFTER THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER 11 THE CENTER OF THE PERIPHERY -- PART III AFTERMATH: BETWEEN TWO EMPIRES, BETWEEN TWO ERAS -- CHAPTER 12 BEFORE AND AFTER THE FALL OF THE SERBIAN DESPOTATE -- CHAPTER 13 MEMORIES OF HOME IN THE ACCOUNTS OF THE BALKAN REFUGEES FROM THE OTTOMANS TO THE APENNINE PENINSULA (FIFTEENTH TO SIXTEENTH CENTURIES) -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS.

This volume offers new perspectives on the history of the Byzantine Balkans and beyond--regions that lived for centuries under the long shadow of Constantinople--as well as unique insights into the complex world of late medieval and early modern southeastern Europe during a period of catastrophe.

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