The Crusades and the First Strikes at Constantinople | A Brief Recovery and the Paleologean Dynasty | The Effect of the Greek East on the European Renaissance
Portrait of Alexius Comnenus from a Greeek Manuscript in the Vatican Library. His reign saw the restoration of much of the glory and territory the Eastern Roman Empire possessed during its golden age. His fearless and cunning leadership deflected the wrath of the first Crusaders, saving the Greek-East from much destruction, and prolonging its life.
A Brief Recovery and the Paleologean Dynasty
The Emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus, who regained Constantinople from the Crusaders for the Greeks. The portrait is from a fifteenth century manuscript in the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai.
The Effect of the Greek East on the European Renaissance
St. George Fighting the Dragon, Raphael, 1504-06, National Gallery of Art, Washington