...This chapter discusses the fleet that sailed from Abydos to the monastery of Saint Stephen, just southwest of the sea walls of Constantinople on 23 June 1203. The fleet sailed past the high walls of Constantinople and landed on the opposite shore in front of the imperial palace at Chalcedon, where...

... leaders managed to create an environment in which victims received palliative care and were never expressly banned from society. The chapter details the cases of leprosy in Constantinople and Asia Minor became a major health issue that required attention from both the state and the Christian Church...

... for the kingdom of Thessalonika in order to be closer to the ancestral lands of his new wife. Baldwin's letter to the pope recounted the events that led to his election as emperor of Constantinople and justified the violence done to the city and its people. The chapter explores the task of the conquerors...

... opaque rhetoric and ritual of crusade recruitment in use at the end of the twelfth century. It also explores Biblical references to the closed-gate motif and compares it to Constantinople's Golden Gate, along with its presence in the story of the seventh- century Byzantine emperor Heraclius and of Robert...

...: Constantinople, Antioch, and Jerusalem. The chapter looks at the evidence provided by a close contemporary concerning Julian's revival in order to understand how Julian restored pagan worship in the former city of Byzantium. It then elaborates on the restoration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem...

... march to Constantinople with promises of religious tolerance, which Ammianus attributed to a cynical effort to foment dissent among rival Christian groups. The chapter also looks at how Julian came to power — desiring to be seen as the restorer of the empire, both its cities and its religion. Ultimately...

...This chapter follows Julian's journey after he left Constantinople for Antioch. It looks closely at Julian's campaign for pagan religious revival in Antioch, a city with a past steeped in pagan religion, and his preparation for the future invasion of Persia. His revival would depend not only...

... the broader Mediterranean system of the sixth through twelfth centuries, the book explores patterns of travel and communication between Sicily and elsewhere—between Constantinople and Rome, between Byzantium and the Islamic world. Finally, it describes Sicily in the dār al-Islām. Lampedusa North Africa...

...This chapter examines the web of connections linking Sicily to the Greek Christian world of the eastern Mediterranean and, simultaneously, to the Latin Christendom of Rome and the Franks during the Byzantine period. It describes travel along the Sicily–Constantinople route under Byzantine rule...

... the empire for themselves. Civil wars and regional uprisings flourished. A particularly nasty civil war between 1341 and 1354 gutted Byzantium's military strength and led to gains by the Serbs, the Venetians, and the Genoese. While Constantinople did not disappear entirely, Byzantium did. Byzantium went from...

...This chapter describes the time when Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev became a serving diplomat attached to the Russian Embassy to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople. This life was hugely more to his liking than his time in Petersburg. The sights and sounds of this new world stimulated Leontiev's...