Frontmatter
CHAPTER ONE The State and the People: Inherited Problems (page 1)
CHAPTER TWO The Legacy of Manuel Comnenus (page 14)
CHAPTER THREE The Last Comneni: Alexius II and Andronicus I (page 31)
CHAPTER FOUR The Reign of Isaac II (page 76)
CHAPTER FIVE Toward Disaster: Alexius III (page 117)
CHAPTER SIX The Norman Threat: 1185 (page 160)
CHAPTER SEVEN Frederick Barbarossa's Crusade (page 176)
CHAPTER EIGHT The Tributary State: Henry VI and Byzantium (page 189)
CHAPTER NINE Toward Commercial Monopoly: The Venetians (page 195)
CHAPTER TEN Venice's Rivals: Genoa and Pisa (page 207)
CHAPTER ELEVEN The Last Hope: Alliance with the Papacy (page 222)
CHAPTER TWELVE The Failure of Byzantine Foreign Policy: The Fourth Crusade at Constantinople (page 232)
APPENDIX I Chronology of Isaac Angelus' Early Years (page 273)
APPENDIX II The Date of Prince Alexius' Arrival in the West (page 275)
ABBREVIATIONS IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND NOTES (page 279)
BIBLIOGRAPHYSection I: Collections, Registers, and Manuals (page 283)
Section II: Sources (page 286)
Section III: Secondary Works (page 297)
NOTES (page 313)
INDEX (page 385)