Politics and Government in Byzantium
Politics and Government in Byzantium The eleventh century marked a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. By the century's close the empire had lost half of its territory and had…
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Politics and Government in Byzantium
The eleventh century marked a turning point in the history of the Byzantine Empire. By the century's close the empire had lost half of its territory and had managed only a partial recovery under the leadership of the Komnenos family. At its start Byzantium was the paramount power in the Mediterranean world, by turns feared, respected and admired.
950-1100) attribute the empire's decline to the emperors' reckless and self-serving favouring of civilian bureaucrats and, while these sources are today widely acknowledged as biased and unreliable, modern assessments of the century have hitherto failed to suggest any tangible alternatives. How did a powerful and famously wealthy empire collapse so quickly?The contemporary accounts of this turbulent 'long' century (taken here as c. To circumvent this dearth of archival material, Jonathan Shea has meticulously analysed 2,200 unpublished
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