Table of contents : Frontmatter Abbreviations (page xii) 1. Expectations and Dissensions: The First Crusade and Byzantium (1096-1098) (page 1) 2. The Antagonisms Sharpen: Alexius I Comnenus and the Crusader States (1098-1119) (page 61) 3. The Height of Confrontation: John Comnenus (1118-1143) (page 96) 4. The 'Policy of Détente': Manuel I Comnenus (1143 -1180) (page 142) 5. Byzantine Weakness and the Relapse into the Policy of Confrontation: From Alexius II Comnenus to Alexius V Murtzuphlus (1180-1204) (page 222) 6. Byzantium and the Crusader States from AD 1096 to 1204: Summary (page 246) APPENDICES (page 259) I. Laodicea, Antioch, and Byzantium between AD 1098 and 1105 (page 259) II. Objectivity and Bias in John Cinnamus, Nicetas Choniates, and William of Tyre (page 277) III. The Treaty of 1137 between Byzantium and the Princedom of Antioch according to Ordericus Vitalis and William of Tyre (page 298) IV. The Alliance of the Franks with Byzantium for the Conquest of Egypt (AD 1165-1177) (page 309) Bibliography (page 321) Index (page 337)