BYZANTIUM AND THE CRUSADES (H/B)

Παρουσίαση

(. . .) This book aims to advance another view of Byzantine interaction with western Europe, the crusades, and the crusader states. It argues that the key, or at least a key, lies not in generalised hostility between peoples or impersonal chance theory, but in the nature of the Byzantine empire and the ideology which underpinned it. That ideology will be examined by looking at the influential group who ran the empire, and the methods and principles they employed in dealing with the world beyond their borders. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)