Table of Contents
- 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)
- NOTES (page 313)
- INDEX (page 385)