1st Edition

Relations Between East and West in the Middle Ages

By Derek Baker Copyright 1973
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

167 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Preface Contributors Abbreviations DoNALD M.NicoL Introduction W.H.C.FREND: 0ld and New Rome in the Age of Justinian KARL LEYSER: The Tenth Century in Byzantine-Western Relationships R.H.C.DAVIS: William of Tyre ANTHONY BRYER: Cultural Relations between East and West in the Twelfth Century JOSEPH GILL S.J.: Innocent III and the Greeks: Aggressor or Apostle? JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH: Government in Latin Syria and the Commercial Privileges of Foreign Merchants R. W.SOUTHERN: Dante and Islam Index

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