In the Roman Empire, relations between East and West  meant connections between the eastern and western parts  of a unified structure of empire. Romans sometimes complained  about the corrupting influence on their city of Greeks  and Orientals, but they employed Greek tutors to educate  their sons. People did not think of the eastern and western  parts of the empire as being separate entities whose relations  with each other must be the object of careful study. Even  at the moment of the empire’s birth, there was a clear idea  of where the Latin West ended and the Greek East began.  This began to change with Constantine, when the Roman  Empire was split in two, with Rome itself in decay.      This volume, first published in 1973, derives from a  colloquium on medieval history held at Edinburgh University.  Its theme was the fl uctuating balance-of-power  of Latin West and Greek East, Rome and Constantinople.  The book starts with Justinian’s attempt to reunite the two  halves of the old Roman Empire and then goes on to consider  the polarization of Christianity into its Catholic and  Orthodox sectors, and the misunderstandings fostered  by the Crusades; and ends with the growing power and  conquests of Islam in the fourteenth century.      The contributions included in  Relations between East  and West in the Middle Ages  are: Old and New Rome in  the Age of Justinian, by W. H. C. Frend; The Tenth Century  in Byzantine-Western Relationships, by Karl Leyser; William  of Tyre, by R. H. C. Davis; Cultural Relations between  East and West in the Twelfth Century, by Anthony Bryer;  Innocent III and the Greeks, Aggressor or Apostle? by Joseph  Gill; Government in Latin Syria and the Commercial  Privileges of Foreign Merchants, by Jonathan Riley-Smith;  and Dante and Islam, by R. W. Southern.

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