Bøker av Michael Angold

This translation of the sermons of the Patriarch Germanos II (1223-40) draws attention to an unfairly neglected source for a critical period when the survival of Byzantium was in the balance. They support the patriarch's enduring importance as an architect of the Byzantine recovery from the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204.

Translated works of Nicholas Mesarites, an ecclesiastic, who provides a different view of Byzantium at crisis point: the descent of the Byzantine Empire into factionalism, the loss of its capital Constantinople in 1204 to the armies of the fourth crusade, and its eventual reconstitution in exile as the Empire of Nicaea.

A Byzantine Government in Exile Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204-1261)