The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492

General introduction Jonathan Shepard; Part I. The Earlier Empire (c.500-c.700): 1. Justinian and his legacy (500-600) Andrew Louth; 2. Eastern neighbours; 2.1. Persia and the Sasanian monarchy (224-651) Zeev Rubin; 2.2. Armenia (400-600) R. W. Thomson; 2.3. The Arabs to the time of the Prophet Lawrence I. Conrad; 3. Western approaches (500-600) John Moorhead; 4. Byzantium transforming (600-700) Andrew Louth; Part II. The Middle Empire (c.700-1204): 5. State of emergency (700-850) Marie-France Auzépy; 6. After iconoclasm (850-886) Shaun Tougher; 7. Religious missions Sergey A. Ivanov; 8. Armenian neighbours (600-1045) T. W. Greenwood; 9. Confronting Islam: emperors versus caliphs (641-c.850) Walter E. Kaegi; 10. Western approaches (700-900) Michael McCormick; 11. Byzantine Italy (680-876) Thomas S. Brown; 12. The middle Byzantine economy (600-1204) Mark Whittow; 13. Equilibrium to expansion (886-1025) Jonathan Shepard; 14. Western approaches (900-1025) Jonathan Shepard; 15. Byzantium and southern Italy (876-1000) G. A. Loud; 16. Belle époque or crisis? (1025-1118) Michael Angold; 17. The empire of the Komnenoi (1118-1204) Paul Magdalino; 18. Balkan borderlands (1018-1204) Paul Stephenson; 19. Raiders and neighbours: the Turks (1040-1304) D. A. Korobeinikov; Part III. The Byzantine Lands in the Later Middle Ages (1204-1492): 20. After the Fourth Crusade: 20.1. The Greek rump states and the recovery of Byzantium Michael Angold; 20.2. The Latin empire of Constantinople and the Frankish states David Jacoby; 21. Balkans powers: Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria (1200-1300) Alain Ducellier; 22. The Palaiologoi and the world around them (1261-1400) Angeliki E. Laiou; 23. Latins in the Aegean and the Balkans (1300-1400) Michel Balard; 24. The Roman orthodox world (1393-1492) Anthony Bryer.

Shepard, Jonathan Jonathan Shepard was a University Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge. Co-author of The Emergence of Rus (1996) with Simon Franklin, with whom he also co-edited Byzantine Diplomacy (1992), some of his many articles appear in Emergent Elites and Byzantium (2011). Edited volumes include The Expansion of Orthodox Europe (2007), Byzantium and the Viking World (with Fedir Androshchuk and Monica White, 2016), Imperial Spheres and the Adriatic (with Mladen Ancic and Trpimir Vedris, 2017), and Viking-Age Trade (with Jacek Gruszczynski and Marek Jankowiak, 2019), and forthcoming volumes include Muslims on the Volga (with Luke Treadwell) and Political Culture in Three Spheres: Byzantium, Islam and the West (with Catherine Holmes et al.).