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The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 (Hardcover)
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The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 (Hardcover)
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The reign of Manuel I (1143-1180) marked the high point of the
revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It
was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of
Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the first
devoted to Manuel's reign for over eighty years, re-evaluates the
emperor and his milieu in the light of recent scholarship. It shows
that his foreign policy was a natural response to the western
crusading movement and the expansionism of the German emperor
Frederick Barbarossa. It also shows that what he ruled was more
than the impoverished rump of a once great empire, or a society
whose development had been arrested by a repressive regime. The
twelfth century is presented here as a distinctive, creative phase
in Byzantine history, when the empire maintained existing
traditions and trends while adapting to a changing world.
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