Relations Between East and West in the Middle Ages

Roger Minshull, Derek Baker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780202363325
• eBook ISBN: 9781351493925
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia europea

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.

Index

Abbasids 37

Abelard 75n.4

Abdul-Rahman al-Nasrani See Christodoulos

Acacian schism 11, 17ff, 22

Acacius, patriarch of Constantinople 17, 18, 19

Achaea, prince of 103

Acre 86, 109–32 passim, 139

1. Mer de la Riviere 112, 124n.34

Adalbert of Ivrea 30, 48, 50n.9

Adalbert of Prague, St 45

Adalbert of Tuscany, margrave 36

Adelaide (Adelheid), empress 41, 45

African church 24–5

Agnes of France, daughter of Louis vii 5, 9n.5, 85

Alberich, prince of Rome 37, 38, 39, 55n.49

Aleppo 68

Alexander, count of Gravina 85

Alexandria 2, 14, 16, 115

1. patriarch 101, 104

Alexius i Comnenus, emperor 79, 89

Alexius ii Comnenus, emperor 5, 85

Alexius iii Angelus, emperor 95, 101

Alexius iv Angelus, emperor 96, 101, 105

Alexius v Murtzuphlus, emperor 105

Alexius Axouchos See Axuch

Alfonso x of Castile, king 140

Alfred, king 41

Ali, son-in-law of Mahomet, fifth caliph 72, 134–8

Al Muqtafi, caliph 37

Amalfi, Amalfitans 110

Amaury i of Jerusalem, king 64, 68, 69, 70, 71, 112, 116, 127n.68

Ambrose of Milan, St 15

Anastasius i, emperor 11, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21

Anatolia 6, 84, 88–90

anchoragia 112

Ancona 110, 111, 120

Andravida, church of Hagia Sophia 86

Andronicus 1 Comnenus, emperor 5, 85, 88

Anna Comnena 87

Anne of Byzantium See Agnes of France

Anselm, St 78, 79

Antapodosis 47, 48, 50n.7

Anthimus of Trebizond 23, 28n.37

Antioch 2, 68, 110, 116

1. patriarch 101, 104

Aphthartodocetism 23

Appian 1, 9n.2

Apulia 36, 54n.42

Aquileia, march 35

Aquinas, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• half title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Old and New Rome in the Age of Justinian
• The Tenth Century in Byzantine-Western Relationships
• William of Tyre
• Cultural Relations between East and West in the Twelfth Century*
• Innocent III and the Greeks: Aggressor or Apostle?
• Government in Latin Syria and the Commercial Privileges of Foreign Merchants
• Dante and Islam
• Index