Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204 1330

by Dimiter Angelov

Book Overview

This study is the first to systematically investigate Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204 - in the Nicaean state (1204-61) and during the early period of the restored empire of the Palaiologoi. The book explores Byzantine political imagination at a time of crisis when the Empire ceased to be a first-rate power in the Mediterranean. It investigates the correspondence and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052129438X
• ISBN13: 9780521294386
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"