In the Name of the True Emperor: Politics of Resistance after the Palaiologan Usurpation
In the Name of the True Emperor: Politics of Resistance after the Palaiologan Usurpation

Summary/Abstract: This article sheds new light on the different forms taken by the resistance that was mounted against the Palaiologan dynasty after the usurpation of the imperial throne by Michael VIII Palaiologos. It examines the surviving evidence for the independent and concerted actions of the multiple groups which claimed to espouse the cause of the deposed John IV Laskaris, and reveals how close these groups came in the early fourteenth century to toppling the new regime. It also discusses in detail the countermeasures employed by Michael VIII, and by his son and successor Andronikos II.

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