MEDIEVAL HISTORY

HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE AND GREEK EMPIRES

FROM 1057 TO 1454

 

BY

GEORGE FINLAY

 

BOOK THIRD

DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BYZANTINE GOVERNMENT.

A.D. 1057-1204.

 

CHAPTER I.  

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MODIFIED BY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POPULATION IN ASIA MINOR. A.D. 1057-1081.

 

CHAPTER I. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MODIFIED BY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POPULATION IN ASIA MINOR. A.D. 1057-1081.

Sect. 1. Reigns of Isaac I (Comnenus), and of Constantine X (Ducas).

Section 2.-  A.D. 1067-1081.

CHAPTER II. THE DYNASTY OF COMNENUS, A.D. 1081-1185.

Section 1.—The reign of Alexius I, A.D 1081-1118.

Section 2.—The reign of John II, A.D. 1118-1143.

Section 3.—Reign of Manuel I, A.D. 1143-1180.

Section 4.—Reigns of Alexius II and Andronicus I, A.D. 1180-1185.

CHAPTER III. THE FALL OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, A.D. 1185-1204.

Section 1.—The Reign of Isaac II (Angelos), A.D. 1185-1195.

Reign of Alexius III (Angelos Comnenos), A.D. 1196-1203.

Section 3.—The Conquest of Constantinople and the Partition of the Byzantine Empire —A.D. 1203-1204. 

End of the Byzantine empire

 

BOOK FOURTH.

GREEK EMPIRES OF ROMA AND CONSTANTINOPLE.—1204-1453.

 

CHAPTER I EMPIRE OF NICAEA—A.D. 1204-1261.

1. Reign of Theodore I. (Lascaris), 1204-1222

2. Reign of John DX (Dukas Vatatses), 1222-1254

3. From the death of John III to the recovery of Constantinople by theGreeks, 1254-1261

CHAPTER II. GREEK EMPIRE OF CONSTANTINOPLE UNDER THE DYNASTY OF PALEOLOGOS,—AD. 1261-1458.

6. Reign of John VI, 1425-144

7. Reign of Constantine XI, 1448-1458