In the Roman Empire, relations between East and West meant
connections between the eastern and western parts of a unified
structure of empire. Romans sometimes complained about the
corrupting influence on their city of Greeks and Orientals, but
they employed Greek tutors to educate their sons. People did not
think of the eastern and western parts of the empire as being
separate entities whose relations with each other must be the
object of careful study. Even at the moment of the empire's birth,
there was a clear idea of where the Latin West ended and the Greek
East began. This began to change with Constantine, when the Roman
Empire was split in two, with Rome itself in decay.
This volume, first published in 1973, derives from a colloquium
on medieval history held at Edinburgh University. Its theme was the
fl uctuating balance-of-power of Latin West and Greek East, Rome
and Constantinople. The book starts with Justinian's attempt to
reunite the two halves of the old Roman Empire and then goes on to
consider the polarization of Christianity into its Catholic and
Orthodox sectors, and the misunderstandings fostered by the
Crusades; and ends with the growing power and conquests of Islam in
the fourteenth century.
The contributions included in "Relations between East and West
in the Middle Ages" are: Old and New Rome in the Age of Justinian,
by W. H. C. Frend; The Tenth Century in Byzantine-Western
Relationships, by Karl Leyser; William of Tyre, by R. H. C. Davis;
Cultural Relations between East and West in the Twelfth Century, by
Anthony Bryer; Innocent III and the Greeks, Aggressor or Apostle?
by Joseph Gill; Government in Latin Syria and the Commercial
Privileges of Foreign Merchants, by Jonathan Riley-Smith; and Dante
and Islam, by R. W. Southern.
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