The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire VII

This volume follows later medieval collisions between Latin Christendom, the Greek empire, and Islam: the Norman conquest of southern Italy and Sicily, the First Crusade and its successor expeditions, and the Comnenian attempts to hold Anatolia and the Balkans. Gibbon narrates popes, princes, and soldier-adventurers as much as emperors, and he shows Constantinople bargaining with Western armies it cannot fully control. The book is a history of crusade and Norman state-building on former Roman ground, not a complete history of medieval Europe.

Bound in dark red-brown buckram decorated in gold. Map endleaves. Pale yellow-brown slipcase.