Byzantium: its internal history and relations with the Muslim world : Collected studies / Speros Vryonis Jr.; Pref. by Milton V. Anastos.

Facsimile reprint. Includes original pagings.

Includes bibliogr. references.

Hellas resurgent.-Byzantium: The social basis of decline in the eleventh century.-Byzantine HMOKPATIA and the guilds in the eleventh century.-St. Ionnicius the Great (754-848) and the "Slavs" of Bithynia.-The will of a provincial magnate, Eustathius Boilas (1059).-The question of the Byzantine mines.-An attic hoard of Byzantine gold coins (668-741) from the Thomas Whittemore collection and the numismatic evidence for the urban history of Byzantium.-Review article of Travaux et m emoires, ed. P. Lemerle, vol. 1 (Paris 1965).-Byzantium and Islam, seven-seventeenth century.-Byzantine circus factions and Islamic Futuwwa Organisations (Neaniai, Fityan, Ahdath).-The conditions and cultural significance of the Ottoman conquest in the Balkans.-Seljuk Gulams and the Ottoman Devshirmes.-Isidore Glabas and the Turkish Devshirme.-Review article of B. Papoulia, Ursprung und Wesen der "Knabenlese" im osmanischen Reich (Munich, 1963).