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GEORGE FINLAY’S

HISTORY OF GREECE FROM BC 146 TO AD 1864

(THE SEVEN VOLUMENS)

 

HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE FROM A.D. 717 TO 1453

BOOK I

THE CONTEST WITH THE ICONOCLASTS, A.D. 717-367

 

CHAPTER I. THE ISAURIAN DYNASTY, A.D. 717-797

CHARACTERISTICS OF BYZANTINE HISTORY

REIGN OF LEO III THE ISAURIAN, A.D. 717-741

ONSTANTINE V COPRONYMUS, A.D. 741-775

REIGNS OF LEO IV THE KHAZAR, CONSTANTINE VI AND IRENE A.D. 775-802

CHAPTER II.

THE REIGNS OF NICEPHORUS I, MICHAEL I, AND LEO V THE ARMENIAN.802-820

NICEPHORUS I, A.D. 802-812

MICHAEL I RHANGABÉ, A.D. 812-813

LEO V THE ARMENIAN, A.D. 813-820

CHAPTER III.

THE AMORIAN DYNASTY, A.D. 820-867

MICHAEL II THE STAMMERER  A.D. 820-829

THEOPHILUS A.D. 829-842

MICHAEL III THE DRUNKARD A.D. 842-867

CHAPTER IV.S

TATE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE DURING THE ICONOCLAST PERIOD

  PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

STATE OF SOCIETY AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE IN THE EIGHTH AND NINTH CENTURIES

 

BOOK TWO

THE BASILIAN DYNASTY

PERIOD OF THE POWER AND GLORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE,. 867-1057

CHAPTER V

CONSOLIDATION OF BYZANTINE LEGISLATION AND DESPOTISM. 867-963

BASIL I THE MACEDONIAN A.D. 867-886

LEO VI THE PHILOSOPHER A.D. 886-912

ALEXANDER (912-913) (913-920) ROMANUS I LECAPENUS, (912-944)

CONSTANTINE VII (PORPHYROGENITUS) ROMANUS II. 945-963.

CHAPTER VI

PERIOD OF CONQUEST AND MILITARY GLORY. 963- 1025

REIGN OF NICEPHORUS II, PHOKAS, AND JOHN I (ZIMISKES) A.D. 963-1025

REIGN OF BASIL II BULGAROKTONOS, A.D. 976-1025.

CHAPTER VII

PERIOD OF CONSERVATISM ON THE EVE OF DECLINE. 1025-1057

CONSTANTINE VIII  A.D.1025-1028

THE REIGNS OF THE HUSBANDS OF ZOE: Romanus III. AD 1028-1034. Reign of Michael V Kalaphates, or the Caulker, A.D. 1042. Constantine IX Monomachus. A.D. 1042-1054

REIGNS OF THEODORA AND MICHAEL VI STRATIOTIKOS, OR THE WARLIKE, A.D. 1054-1057

BOOK THIRD

DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BYZANTINE GOVERNMENT

A.D. 1057-1204

CHAPTER VIII

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT MODIFIED BY THE DESTRUCTION OF THE POPULATION IN ASIA MINOR. 1057-1081

Isaac I (Comnenus), and of Constantine X (Ducas) AD 1057-1081; Isaac I, AD 1057

Regency of Eudocia, AD 1067; Romanus IV Diogenes, A.D. 1068-1071; Michael VII, AD 1071-1078; Nicephorus III, AD 1078-1081; Battle of Manzikert, AD 1071;

CHAPTER IX

THE DYNASTY F COMNENUS. 1081-1185

Alexius I. A.D 1081-1118; The Bogomilians; Patzinak War, AD 1085; The Crusades, Conquets of Nicaea, AD 1097.

John II, A.D. 1118-1143

Manuel I, A.D. 1143-1180; Hungarian War, AD 1151; War with Venice, AD 1171; War with Antioch and Armenian Cilicia; War with the sultan of Iconium

Alexius II and Andronicus I, A.D. 1180-118; Rebellion of Cyprus, AD 1184.

CHAPTER X

THE FALL OF THE BYZANTINE EMIRE

Isaac II (Angelos), A.D. 1185-1195. Third Crusade , AD 1189

lexius III (Angelos Comnenos) A.D. 1196-1203.

The Conquest of Constantinople and the Partition of the Byzantine Empire A.D. 1203-1204.Alexius V (Murtzuphilos), A.D. 1204.

End of the Byzantine Empire  

BOOK FOURTH

GREEK EMPIRE OF NICAEA AND CONSTANTINPLE. 1204-1453

CHAPTER XI

EMPIRE OF NICAEA. 1204-1261

Theodore I (Lascaris), AD 1204-1222.

John III (Dukas Vatatzes) AD 1222-1254; War with Michael II od Epirus , AD 1251.

From the death of John III to the recovery of Constantinople by the Greeks, AD 1254-1261.

CHAPTER XII.

GREEK EMPIRE OF CONSTANTINOPLE UNDER THE DYNASTY OF PALEOLOGOS, A.D. 1261-1453.

Michael VIII, AD 1261-1282.

Andronicus II, AD 1282-1828.

Andronicus of III the Younger, AD 1328-1341.

John V (Palaeologos), A.D. 1341-1391, including the Reigns of John Cantacuzenos, A.D. 1347- 1354, and of Andronicus, the son of John V, AD 1375-1376 and 1379-1381.

Manuel II, AD 1891-1426.

John VI, AD 1425-1448.

Constantine XI, AD 1448-1453

END THE HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

 

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