Michael VIII Palaeologus: References & Edit History

For the life and reign of Michael, see Conrad Chapman, Michel Paléologue, restaurateur de l’empire byzantin (1926); and D.J. Geanakoplos, Emperor Michael Palaeologus and the West, 1258–1282: A Study in Byzantine-Latin Relations (1959). The most recent edition of Michael’s so-called autobiography is H. Gregoire, “Imperatoris Michaelis Palaeologi, ‘De Vita Sua’,” Byzantion, 29–30:447–476 (1959–60). For further reference, see Warren Treadgold, A History of the Byzantine State and Society (1997); and S. Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later Thirteenth Century (1958).