SECONDARY LITERATURE, 3

The Empire of the Komnenoi

Angold, M. (1997), The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204. A Political History. London.

Angold, M. (1995), Church and society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081-1261. Cambridge & New York.

Cheynet, J.-C. (1990), Pouvoir et contestations a Byzance (963-1210). Paris.

Magdalino, P. (1993), The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180. Cambridge.

Mullett, M. & D. Smythe (eds.), Alexios I Komnenos, I: Papers, Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations 4.1, Belfast.

The Emperor and his Image

Dagron, G. (2003), Emperor and Priest. The Imperial Office in Byzantium. Cambridge

Dennis, G. T. (1997), 'Imperial Panegyric: rhetoric and reality', in H. Maguire, ed., Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204, pp. 131-40.

Magdalino, P. (1988), 'The phenomenon of Manuel I Komnenos', Byzantinische Forschungen 13: 171-99.

Magdalino, P. & R. Nelson (1982), 'The emperor in Byzantine art of the twelfth century', Byzantinische Forschungen 8: 123-83.

Ostrogorsky, G. (1956), 'The Byzantine emperor and the hierarchical world order', Slavonic and East European Review 35: 1-14.

Stephenson, P. (2001), 'The image of the Bulgar-slayer: three art historical notes', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 25: 44-68.

Stephenson, P. (2003), The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-slayer, Cambridge

Anna Comnena and her Alexiad

Buckler, G. (1929, recently reprinted), Anna Comnena: A Study. Oxford.

France, J. (1984), 'Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade', Reading Medieval Studies 10: 20-38.

Gouma-Peterson, T. (2000), (ed.), Anna Komnene and her Times. New York & London.

Howard-Johnston, J. D. (1996), 'Anna Komnene and the Alexiad', in Mullett & Smythe (eds.), Alexios I Komnenos, I, Papers, pp. 260-302.

Macrides, R. (2000), 'The Pen and the Sword: who wrote the Alexiad?', in Gouma-Peterson (ed.), Anna Komnene, pp. 63-81.

Magdalino, P. (2000), 'The Pen of the Aunt: Echoes of the mid-twelfth century in the Alexiad', in Gouma-Peterson (ed.), Anna Komnene, pp.15-43.

Byzantium Confronts the West -- The Balkans

Brand, C. M. (1968), Byzantium Confronts the West, 1180-1204, Cambridge, MA.

Charanis, P. (1949), 'Byzantium, the West and the origin of the First Crusade', Byzantion 19: 17-36.

Fine, Jr., J. V. A. (1987), The Late Medieval Balkans: a Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, MI

Johnson, E. N. (1969), 'The Crusades of Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI', in R. L. Wolff & H. W. Hazard (eds.), A History of the Crusades, II: The Later Crusades, 1189-1311, 87-122. Madison.

Lilie, R.-J. (1993), Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204, trans. J. C. Morris & J. E. Ridings, Oxford.

Magdalino, P. (1996), The Byzantine Background to the First Crusade, Toronto.

Makk, F. (1989), The Arpads and the Comneni. Political Relations between Hungary and Byzantium in the 12th Century, Budapest

Malamut, E. (1995), 'L'image byzantine des Petchenegues', BZ 88, 105-47

[Blangez-] Malamut, E. & M. Cacouros (1996), 'L'image des Serbes dans le rhetorique byzantine de la seconde moiti� du XIIe si�cle', in K. Fledelius (ed.), Byzantium. Identity, Image, Influence. XIX International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 2 vols., Copenhagen, I, pp. 97-122

Nicol, D. M. (1988), Byzantium and Venice. A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, Cambridge.

Shepard, J. (1988), 'When Greek meets Greek: Alexios Comnenos and Bohemond in 1097-1098', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies12: 185-277.

Shepard, J. (1997), 'Cross-purposes: Alexius Comnenus and the First Crusade', in J. Phillips (ed.), The First Crusade: Origins and Impact, pp. 107-29. Manchester.

Stephenson, P. (2000) Byzantium's Balkan Frontier. A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204. Cambridge.

Wolff, R. L. (1949), 'The "Second Bulgarian Empire." Its origin and history to 1204', Speculum 24: 167-206. Available through JSTOR.

Life and Death in Byzantium -- The economy

Alexakis, A. (2001), 'Was there life beyond the life beyond? Byzantine ideas on reincarnation and the final restoration', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55, 155-77.

Daley, B. (2001), '"At the hour of our death": Mary's dormition and Christian dying in late Patristic and early Byzantine literature', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55, 71-90.

Dennis, G. (2001), 'Death in Byzantium', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55, 1-8.

A. Laiou, ed. (2002), The economic history of Byzantium, from the seventh through the fifteenth century. Washington, D.C. Many useful articles, to be viewed and downloaded at Dumbarton Oaks.

Velkovska, E. (2001), 'Funeral rites according to Byzantine liturgical sources', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55, 21-52.

Wortley, J. (2001), 'Death, judgment, heaven, and hell in Byzantine "Beneficial Tales"', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 55, 53-70.

The Final Years of Byzantium

Barker, J. (1969), Manuel II Palaeologus, 1395-1425. A Study in Late Byzantine Statesmanship. New Brunswick.

Bryer, A. & H. Lowry (1986), eds, Continuity and Change in Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Society. Birmingham.

Nicol, D. (1993), The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453. 2nd end. Cambridge.

Paul Stephenson, November 2005

Revised November 2006