Week 10 (October 26-30)

Diminishing security, 1143-1204

• The Balkans [Shepard 664-691] 
• The fall of the Comneni and the fall of the Empire [Greogry 279-281; Shepard 636-663; Geanakoplos 24-25 (no. 7), 54 (no. 31), 92-93 (no. 65), 280 (no. 204 - the great fair at Thessalonica), 363-365 (nos. 272-273), 365-367 (nos. 274-275), 368-372 (nos. 276-280 - Geoffroy de Villehardouin on the Fourth Crusade)]
• Twelfth-century Byzantine society and the problem of "Byzantine feudalism" [chapters by Peter Frankopan and Michel Kaplan in Haldon; Geanakoplos 69-70 (no. 46)]