Medievalists.net » Emperor Andronikos III http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52418 In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/feed/ 0 A Note on Michael the Porphyrogenitus, son of Andronikos III Palaiologos (*1337-+1352) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/a-note-on-michael-the-porphyrogenitus-son-of-andronikos-iii-palaiologos-1337-1352/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/a-note-on-michael-the-porphyrogenitus-son-of-andronikos-iii-palaiologos-1337-1352/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:40:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34509 Michael the Porphyrogenitus was born approximately in the year 1337. TheImperial couple chose the name “Michael” probably in honor of Michael IXPalaiologos, co-emperor of Byzantium (1296-1320) and father of the young Andronikos.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/05/a-note-on-michael-the-porphyrogenitus-son-of-andronikos-iii-palaiologos-1337-1352/feed/ 0 The legal aspects of the Stefan Dušan`s involvement in the civil war in Byzantium 1341-1354 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/16/the-legal-aspects-of-the-stefan-dusans-involvement-in-the-civil-war-in-byzantium-1341-1354/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/16/the-legal-aspects-of-the-stefan-dusans-involvement-in-the-civil-war-in-byzantium-1341-1354/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:34:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33886 The problem of the legal aspects is consisting mainly of the measure of influence of contemporary concepts of what was legitimate and legal towards the sequence of events during the civil war which started a few months after the death of the Emperor Andronikos III (died 15 June 1341) and lasted with certain periods of a relative peace until his son John V finally succeeded to take the sole rule of an Emperor (after 10 December 1354).

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