The chapter analyses the case of the Empire of Trebizond, a Byzantine rump-state that emerged in the aftermath of the fourth Crusade (1204) on the shores of the Black Sea in north-eastern Anatolia. Its isolation from the rest of the Byzantine world preserved some archaic traits in its aristocracy, which, together with the peculiar attitude of the local rulers towards the bordering Turkish tribes, produced in its territories something comparable to western-European lordships. The most distinctive among the latter were located on the mountainous frontiers of the Empire, where the warlords who ruled them made a living by extorting travelers and raiding the neighbouring Turkic principalities.
Fasolio M (2023). Predatory Lordships on the Edge of the Byzantine World: The Case of Late-Medieval Pontos (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries). NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Predatory Lordships on the Edge of the Byzantine World: The Case of Late-Medieval Pontos (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
Fasolio M
2023
Abstract
The chapter analyses the case of the Empire of Trebizond, a Byzantine rump-state that emerged in the aftermath of the fourth Crusade (1204) on the shores of the Black Sea in north-eastern Anatolia. Its isolation from the rest of the Byzantine world preserved some archaic traits in its aristocracy, which, together with the peculiar attitude of the local rulers towards the bordering Turkish tribes, produced in its territories something comparable to western-European lordships. The most distinctive among the latter were located on the mountainous frontiers of the Empire, where the warlords who ruled them made a living by extorting travelers and raiding the neighbouring Turkic principalities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
