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Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies

Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies AL-MASĀQ, 2018 VOL. 30, NO. 1, 117–131 BOOK REVIEWS Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies, Stephen W. Reinert, 2014, Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS902, Ashgate: Farnham, xiv + 288 pp., £105.00/US$132.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780754659402. Historical hindsight has long lent a sense of inevitability to the Ottoman takeover of Constan- tinople in the mid-ninth/fifteenth century. As Colin Imber usefully points out in his introduc- tion to the present volume, though, the last centuries of Byzantium are not an easy time for a historian to study. The textual sources are fragmentary, not plentiful, and demand linguistic abilities that few possess. The author of the present series of collected book chapters, Professor Stephen Reinert, has contributed to a nuanced interpretation of this period. Arranged in chronological order of the events it covers, Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies contain nine reprinted papers and one published here for the first time. The book com- bines overviews of long-term processes with the careful and often imaginative examination of specific literary works and enigmatic references to particular events and practices. A chapter (I) from the Oxford History of Byzantium delineates the successive episodes of dynastic strife, divisions and convergence within the Palaiologan family branches, evaluating http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Taylor & Francis

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AL-MASĀQ, 2018 VOL. 30, NO. 1, 117–131 BOOK REVIEWS Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies, Stephen W. Reinert, 2014, Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS902, Ashgate: Farnham, xiv + 288 pp., £105.00/US$132.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780754659402. Historical hindsight has long lent a sense of inevitability to the Ottoman takeover of Constan- tinople in the mid-ninth/fifteenth century. As Colin Imber usefully points out in his introduc- tion to the present volume, though, the...
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AL-MASĀQ, 2018 VOL. 30, NO. 1, 117–131 BOOK REVIEWS Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies, Stephen W. Reinert, 2014, Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS902, Ashgate: Farnham, xiv + 288 pp., £105.00/US$132.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780754659402. Historical hindsight has long lent a sense of inevitability to the Ottoman takeover of Constan- tinople in the mid-ninth/fifteenth century. As Colin Imber usefully points out in his introduc- tion to the present volume, though, the last centuries of Byzantium are not an easy time for a historian to study. The textual sources are fragmentary, not plentiful, and demand linguistic abilities that few possess. The author of the present series of collected book chapters, Professor Stephen Reinert, has contributed to a nuanced interpretation of this period. Arranged in chronological order of the events it covers, Late Byzantine and Early Ottoman Studies contain nine reprinted papers and one published here for the first time. The book com- bines overviews of long-term processes with the careful and often imaginative examination of specific literary works and enigmatic references to particular events and practices. A chapter (I) from the Oxford History of Byzantium delineates the successive episodes of dynastic strife, divisions and convergence within the Palaiologan family branches, evaluating

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