Paul Halsall

                       Bibliography on Trebizond
                            [compiled 1990]

     This is by no means complete. See the both Miller's old history
     of Trebizond and Bryer's new study of the monuments of the area.
     Works marked with an asterisk * are more useful.

                             Basic Sources

Original Documents

Bull dated 1371 by Alexios III to George Doranites, MS Arch.Seld. B.56
     (Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Greek Sources

Michael Panaretos: Chronicle

N. Mesarites in A. Heisenburg, Neue Quellen Zur Geschichte des
     Latinischen Kasiertums I, (Munich: 1923)

Actes de Vazelon, ed. Th. Ouspensky (Uspenskij) and V. Benechevitch ,
     (Leningrad: 1929)
     [Documents on the economic and social history of Trebizond.]

Non-Greek Sources

Georgian Chronicle, in M.F. Brosset, Histoire de la Georgie, (St.
     Petersburg: 1849)

Ibn Battuta, ed. H.A.R. Gibb, (London: 1927)]


                       Secondary Works - General

Alpatov, M., "Eine Reise nach Konstantinopel, Nicaa und Trapezunt",
     Repertorium Fur Kunstwissenschaft (1928)

*Babinger, F., "La date de la prise de Trebizonde par les turcs",
     Revue des études byzantines 7 (1949), pp. 205 ff.

Bakalopulas, "Les limites de l"Empire byzantin" in Byzantinisches
     Zeitschrift 55:2, pp. 56-65

Brehier, Louis, The Life and Death of Byzantium, Europe in the MIddle
     Ages, Selected Studies, trans. Margaret Vaughan from Vie et Mort
     de Byzance, (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co, 1977;
     original, Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1946) [DF555.871]

*Bryer, Anthony A.M., "Trebizond: The Last Byzantine Empire", History
     Today 10:2 (1960), pp. 125-135

*Bryer, Anthony A.M., "Trebizond", Dumbarton Oaks Papers 29 (1975),
     pp. 115-148

Cahen, Claude, Pre-Ottoman Turkey, (London: 1968)

Cahen, Claude, Turcobyzantina et Oriens Christianus, (London:
     Variorum, 19  )

*Cambridge Medieval History, Vol IV The Byzantine Empire: Part I:
     Byzantium and Its Neighbours; Part II: Government, Church and
     Civilisation, ed. Joan M. Hussey, (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1966.
     1967)

Charanis, Peter, Social, Economic and Political Life in the Byzantine
     Empire (London: Variorum, 1973) [DF552.C45]

*Cumont, F., "Notes on Vazelon", Byzantinishce Zeitschrift 14 (1905),
     pp. 302 ff.

Cumont, F. and E. Cumont, "Voyage de exploration dans le Pont et le
     Petit Arménie", Studia Pontica (1906, pp. 336 ff.

Curzon, R., Armenia, (London: 1854)

Diehl, Charles, Byzantium: Greatness and Decline, trans. Naomi
     Walford, (New Brunswick, N.J.: 1957; original French 19??)

Fallmerayer, Geschichte des Kasiertums von Trapezunt, (Munich: 1827)

Hussey, Joan, The Byzantine World, (New York: 1961)

Jerphanion, G. de, "Sampson et Amiso", Orientalia Christiana 1 (1935),
     pp.257 ff.

*Jorga, N., [on the title of the emperors of Trebizond], Revue sud-est
     europ 13 (1936), pp. 176 ff.

*Miller, W., Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire, (1926; repr. Chicago:
     Argonaut Publishers, 1968)

Minzlov, The Empire of Trebizond (in Russian), (Berlin: c. 1922)

Nicol, Donal M., The Last Centuries of Byzantium 1261-1453 (London:
     1972; New York: St. Martins Press, 1972)

Nicol, Donal M., Church and Society in the Last Centuries of Byzantium
     (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1979) [DF531.N5]
     [Plague - p. 23, 104]

Nicol, D.M. : The End of the Byzantine Empire (London: Edward Arnold, 1979)

Oryels, P., "Sabas Asinedos, Dynaste de Sampson", Byzantion 10 (19  ),
     pp. 67 ff.

*Ostrogorsky, George, History of the Byzantine State, 2nd English ed.
     trans. of Geschichte des Byzantinischen Staates, Joan M. Hussey,
     (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1968, trans. of 3rd German ed., 1963;
     US ed., New Brunswick, NJ.: Rutgers UP, 1969; first German ed.
     1940, first English ed. 1956)

Ouspensky, Th., Ocerki iz istorii trapezuntskoj imperii [Studies in
     the History of the Empire of Trebizond], (Leningrad: 1929)

Pears, E., The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the
     Capture of Constantinople, (London & New York: 1903)

Runciman, Steven, The Fall of Constantinople 1453, (Cambridge:
     Cambridge UP, 1965) [DF645.R85]
     
Runciman, Steven, The Last Byzantine Renaissance, (Cambridge:
     Cambridge UP, 1970)

Schlumberger, G., La Siege, prise et la sac du Constantinople en 1453,
     (Paris: 1915)

*Senturk, Cevat, Trebizond, (Istanbul: Arofis Matbaassi, 1975)
     [Usefully illustrated guidebook.]

Stacton, David, The World on the Last Day: The Sack of Constantinople
     by the Turks May 29th, 1453, its Causes and Consequences,
     (London: Faber and Faber, 1965) [DF645.S83]
     [Plague - pp. 21. ff - says it ravages Turk and Christian alike,
     with 7 acute recurrences in the next 85 years.]

Texier, C., Description de l'Arménie, la Perse et la Mesopatamie,
     (Paris: 1842)

Toumanoff, C. (Prince), "On the Relationship Between the Founder of
     the Empire of Trebizond and the Georgian Queen Thamara", Speculum
     15:3 (1940), pp. 299 ff.

Vacalopoulos, Apostolos. F., "Les Limites de l"empire byzantine depuis
     la fin du XIVe siecle jusqu'a sa chute 1453", Byzantinische
     Zeitschrift, pp, 56-65

Vasiliev, Alexander A., "Pero Tafur: A Spanish Traveler of the
     Fifteenth Century and his Visit to Constantinople, Trebizond and
     Italy", Byzantion 7 (1932), pp. 75-122

*Vasiliev, Alexander. A., "The Foundation of the Empire of Trebizond",
     Speculum 11 (1936), pp. 3-37

Vasiliev, Alexander. A., "Mesarites as a Source", Speculum 13:2
     (1938), pp. 180 ff.

Vasiliev, Alexander A., History of the Byzantine Empire, 2 vols.
     (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1973, first Eng. ed. 1952 )
     [Vol II, pp. 626 on the Black Death.]

Vryonis, Speros, The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and
     the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the
     Fifteenth Century, (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: Univ. of
     California Press, 1971)

                                   
                         Secondary Works - Art

Alpatov, M., "Les Reliefs de Sainte Sophie de Trebizond", Byzantion 4
     (19  ), pp. 407 ff.

*Bryer, Anthony M. & David Winfield, The Byzantine Monuments and
     Topography of the Pontos, 2 vols., Dumbarton Oaks Studies 20,
     (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
     1985)

Cumont, F., "Notes sue un inscription d'Iconium", Byzantinishce
     Zeitschrift 4 (1895), pp. 100 ff.

Cumont, F., in Revue de l'instruction publique en Belge (1903),
     pp. 16 ff.

Cumont, F., in Revue de l'instruction publique en Belge (1905),
     pp. 1 ff.

*Millet, G. and David Talbot Rice, Byzantine Painting at Trebizond,
     (London: 1936)

Talbot-Rice, David, in Journal of the Hellenic Society 3 (1932),
     pp. 47 ff.

Talbot-Rice, David, "Notes on Some Religious Buildings in the City and
     Vilayet of Trebizond", Byzantion 5 (19  ), pp. 50 ff.

Talbot-Rice, David, "The Cathedral of Trebizond", Illustrated London
     News (11th Oct. 1958)

Talbot-Rice, David, Byzantine Painting, (London: Thames & Hudson,
     19??)

                                Novels
                                   
*Macaulay, Rose, The Towers of Trebizond, (London: 1956, still in
     print)