The Byzantine Empire 717-1453
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The Byzantine Empire 717-1453

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The Byzantine Empire 717-1453

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THE institutions of Imperial Rome had long thwarted the great law of man's existence which impels him to better his condition, when the accession of Leo the Isaurian to the throne of Constantinople suddenly opened a new era in the history of the Eastern Empire. Both the material and intellectual progress of society had been deliberately opposed by the imperial legislation. A spirit of conservatism persuaded the legislators of the Roman empire that its power could not decline, if each order and profession of its citizens was fixed irrevocably in the sphere of their own peculiar duties by hereditary succession. An attempt was really made to divide the population into castes. But the political laws which were adopted to maintain mankind in a state of stationary prosperity by these trammels, depopulated and impoverished the empire, and threatened to dissolve the very elements of society. The Western Empire, under their operation, fell a prey to small tribes of northern nations; the Eastern was so depopulated that it was placed on the eve of being repeopled by Sclavonian colonists, and conquered by Saracen invaders...

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Information

Publisher
Perennial Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781531263140
Topic
History
Subtopic
Roman Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. THE ISAURIAN DYNASTY. A.D. 717-797: SECTION I. CHARACTERISTICS OF BYZANTINE HISTORY – ITS DIVISIONS – EXTENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS OF THE EMPIRE
  2. THE REIGNS OF NICEPHORUS I., MICHAEL I., AND LEO V. THE ARMENIAN. A.D. 802-820: SECTION I. NICEPHORUS I. 802-811
  3. THE AMORIAN DYNASTY, A.D. 820-867: SECTION I. MICHAEL II., (THE STAMMERER,) A.D. 820-829
  4. STATE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE DURING THE ICONOCLAST PERIOD: SECTION I. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS
  5. CONSOLIDATION OF BYZANTINE LEGISLATION AND DESPOTISM. A.D. 867-963: SECTION I REIGN OF BASIL I. (THE MACEDONIAN,) A.D. 867-886
  6. PERIOD OF CONQUEST AND MILITARY GLORY, A.D. 963-1025: SECTION I. REIGNS OF NICEPHORUS II., PHOKAS, AND JOHN I. (ZIMISKES). A.D. 963-976
  7. PERIOD OF CONSERVATISM ON THE EVE OF DECLINE, A.D. 1025-1057: SECTION I. CONSTANTINE VIII., A.D. 1025-1028
  8. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MODIFIED BY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POPULATION IN ASIA MINOR.A.D. 1057-1081.: Section I. Reigns of Isaac I (Comnenus), and of Constantine X (Ducas) A.D. 1057-1081.
  9. THE DYNASTYOF COMNENUS,
  10. THE FALL OF THE BYZANTINE EMIRE: Section I The Reign of Isaac II (Angelos), A.D. 1185-1195.
  11. END OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
  12. EMPIRE OF NICAEA, AD.1204-1261.: SECT. I.—REIGN OF THEODORE I. (LASCARIS), A.D. 1204-1222.
  13. GREEK EMPIRE OF CONSTANTINOPLE UNDER THE DYNASTY OF PALEOLOGOS