A History of Greece
From its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864

This classic seven-volume work, incorporating authorial revisions and published posthumously in 1877, traces the history of Greece across two millennia.

George Finlay (Author), H. F. Tozer (Edited by)

9781108078368, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 November 2014

456 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm, 0.58 kg

A participant in the Greek struggle for independence alongside Lord Byron, the philhellene George Finlay (1799–1875) lent his support to the newly liberated nation while diligently studying its past. The monographs he published in his lifetime covered the history of Greece since the Roman conquest, spanning two millennia. His two-volume History of the Greek Revolution (1861) is reissued separately in this series. Edited by the scholar Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1829–1916) and published in 1877, this seven-volume collection brought together Finlay's histories, incorporating significant revisions. Notably, Finlay gives due consideration to social and economic factors as well as high politics. Volume 4 covers medieval Greece and the empire of Trebizond. Opening with an overview of populations in Greece following the decline of Rome, Finlay traces the aftermath of the 1204 sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade, up until the 1461 fall of the empire of Trebizond in Anatolia.

Part I. Mediaeval Greece: 1. Changes in the population in Greece after the decline of the Roman empire
2. Causes of hostile feelings between the Byzantine Greeks and the western Europeans
3. Overthrow of the Byzantine empire by the Crusaders
4. Empire of Romania
5. Despotate of Epirus, empire of Thessalonika
6. Dukes of Athens
7. Principality of Achaia or the Morea
8. Byzantine province in the Peloponnesus
9. Dukes of the Archipelago or of Naxos
Part II. The Empire of Trebizond: 1. Foundations of the empire
2. Trebizond tributary to the Seljouk sultans and the Mongols
3. Trebizond independent
4. Re-establishment of the emperor's supremacy
5. Fall of the empire
Appendix.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]