In this book the author contends-and this is not a very widely held
view-that Byzantium deserves to be considered an influential part
of the broader development of Europe, even though its borders also
reached out to the vast territories of Anatolia and the Caucasus,
and to the eastern Mediterranean. The long twelfth century, from
the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the
sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period
recognized as fostering the most brilliant cultural development in
Byzantine history, especially its literary production. It was a
time of intense creativity as well as of rising tensions, and one
for which literary approaches are a lively area in current
scholarship. The study focuses on the prose dialogues in Greek from
this period-of very varying kinds-and on what they can tell us
about the society and culture of the era when western Europe was
itself developing a new culture of schools, universities, and
scholars. Yet it was also the period in which Byzantium felt the
fateful impact of the Crusades, which ended with the momentous sack
of Constantinople in 1204. Despite revisionist attempts to play
down the extent of this disaster, it was a blow from which,
arguably, the Byzantines never fully recovered.
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