Author: Brand, Charles M.
Title: Byzantium Confronts the West, 1180-1204
Description: Cambridge [MA], Harvard University Press, 1968. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, x,394 pp.. Textual maps.. Some rubbing & corner bumps to binding. VG. ¶ Contents: The State and the people: inherited problems -- The legacy of Manuel Commnenus -- The last Comneni: Alexius II and Andronicus I -- The reign of Isaac II -- Toward disaster: Alexius III -- The Norman threat: 1185 -- Frederick Barbarossa’s crusade -- The tributary state: Henry VI and Byzantium -- Toward commerical monopoly: the Venetians -- Venice’s rivals: Genoa and Pisa -- The last hope: allaince with the papacy -- The failure of Byzantine foreign policy: the fourth crusade at Constantinople -- Appendic I: Chronology of Isaac Angelus' early years -- Appendix II: the date of Prince Alexius' arrival in the West -- Genealogies Partial Stemma of the Comneni -- Partial Stemma of the Angeli.

Keywords: Byzantine Empire, Medieval, Byzantium, Diplomatic, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Europe, Political History,