Necipoğlu, Nevra.

Byzantium between the Ottomans and the Latins : politics and society in the late empire / Nevra Necipoğlu. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xvii, [4], 350 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-338) and index.

The topic and the sources -- The shrinking empire and the Byzantine dilemma between East and West after the Fourth Crusade -- Social organization, historical developments, and political attitudes in Thessalonike : an overview (1382-1430) -- Byzantine Thessalonike (1382-1387 and 1403-1423) -- Thessalonike under foreign rule -- The Byzantine court and the Ottomans : conflict and accommodation -- The first challenge : Bayezid I's siege of Constantinople (1394-1402) -- From recovery to subjugation : the last fifty years of Byzantine rule in Constantinople (1403-1453) -- The early years of Palaiologan rule in the Morea (1382-1407) -- The final years of the Byzantine Morea (1407-1460).

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Political culture--Byzantine Empire.
East and West.


Byzantine Empire--Politics and government--1081-1453
Byzantine Empire--Social conditions.
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Byzantine Empire--Relations--Turkey.
Byzantine Empire--Relations--Europe, Western.
Thessalonikē (Greece)--History.
Istanbul (Turkey)--History.
Peloponnesus (Greece : Peninsula)--History.

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