"The Hidden Secrets: Late Byzantium in the Western and Polish Context"

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Preface 7

Acknowledgements 9

CHAPTER ONE. The Palaiologoi Themselves and Their Western Connections 13

L’attitude probyzantine de Saint Louis et les opinions des sources françaises concernant cette question 15

Is There any Room on the Bosporus for a Latin Lady? 37

Byzantine Empresses’ Mediations in the Feud between the Palaiologoi (13th–15th Centuries) 53

Family Ethos at the Imperial Court of the Palaiologos in the Light of the Testimony by Theodore of Montferrat 69

Ought One to Marry? Manuel II Palaiologos’ Point of View 81

Sophia of Montferrat or the History of One Face 99

“Vasilissa, ergo gaude...” Cleopa Malatesta’s Byzantine CV 123

Hellenism at the Court of the Despots of Mistra in the First Half of the 15th Century 135

The Power of Virtue. The Case of the Last Palaiologoi 147

Le roi de France, aurait-il pu acheter Byzance? 163

CHAPTER TWO. Byzantium and the Polish Kingdom in 13th–15th Centuries 171

A Byzantine Lady’s Daughters in Poland 173

Peter of Cyprus and Casimir the Great in Cracow 183

Could Poland Have Reacted to the Submission of Byzantium to the Turks in 1372–1373? 195

Uzun Hasan’s Project of Alliance with the Polish King (1474) 211

From Poland to Tenedos. The Project of Using the Teutonic Order in the Fight against the Turks after the Fall of Constantinople 233

Cantacuzene – “The Wolf” or Matthias Stryjkowski’s Recollection of Byzantium 247

CHAPTER THREE. Byzantium Viewed from the Contemporary Polish and Texan Perspective 267

La vision moscovite de Byzance et le byzantinisme allemand de Koneczny ou Byzance sans Byzance 269

Byzance, source de stéréotypes dans la conscience des Polonais 287

Byzantine Frescoes Chapel from Lusignans’ Cyprus in Houston 301