Introduction

I. The Sins of the Fathers

II. Diplomatic Realignments, 1282-1296

Religious Policy

The Balkans, Greece, and Achaia

Western Claims to Byzantium

III. Retrenchment and the Turn to Asia Minor, 1282-1296

The Italian Maritime Cities

Asia Minor

IV. The Failure of Retrenchment, 1296-1302

Asia Minor

The Balkans

The Venetian-Genoese War and the Byzantine Empire

The Means of Defense

The Social Background

V. Reaping the Whirlwind, 1303-1305

The Peace of Caltabelotta

The Catalan Campaign

Byzantium, the Genoese, and the Catalans

VI. The Catalan Attack and the Byzantine Defense, 1305-1309

Toward a Byzantine Defense

The Defense of Thrace

Diplomatic Efforts

The Catalans and Europe

The Byzantine-Genoese Agreement of 1308

The Cost of Byzantine Foreign Policy

VII. The Catalans. Charles of Valois, and Byzantium, 1302-1313

The Plans of Charles of Valois

The Catalan Campaigns of 1307-1311

The Catalans in Athens

Diplomacy in the Balkans

Charles of Valois, Venice, and Byzantium

VIII. After the Storm, 1311-1321

Domestic Policy of Andronicus II

The Papacy, the Angevins, and Byzantium

The Italian Maritime Cities

Aragon

The Northern Neighbors

IX. Seizing the Crown, 1321-1328

Civil War

Byzantium and the Ghibelline Powers

The Unionist Approach

Appendix I. Some Letters of the Patriarch of Constantinople, Athanasios I

Appendix II. Two Letters to Charles of Valois and Catherine of Courtenay

Bibliography

An Essay on Sources

The Sources

Index

Maps