The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261?1453 (Paperback, 2 Revised edition)

1. The Byzantine empire after the Fourth Crusade; 2. The empire in exile and its restoration; Part I. The Problems of the Restored Empire: the Reign of Michael VIII Palaiologos, 1261-82: 3. The price of survival; 4. The battle of wits between east and west; 5. The Byzantine dilemma in the thirteenth century; Part II. Byzantium as a Second-rate Power: the Reign of Andronikos II Palaiologos,1282-1321: 6. The restoration of orthodoxy; 7. Symptoms and causes of decline; 8. The failure to find a cure; 9. The nature of the enemy; Part III. The Mortal Illness of Byzantium: the Age of Civil Wars, 1321-54: 10. The question of the succession and the first civil war; 11. The reign of Andronikos III, 1328-41; 12. The second civil war, 1341-47; 13. The reign of John VI Cantacuzene, 1347?54; Part IV. Byzantium as a Vassal of the Turks: the Last Hundred Years, 1354-1453: 14. The reign of John V Palaiologos, 1354-91; 15. The reign of Manuel II: the first crisis, 1391?1402; 16. The last reprieve, 1402?25; 17. The Ottoman revival and the reign of John VIII Palaiologos, 1425?48; 18 Constantine XI and Mehmed II: The fall of Constantinople, 1448?53; 19. The last outposts of Byzantium; Bibliography.