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1. I. Mélikoff (ed.), La geste de Melik Danismend, 2 vols. (Paris, 1960). • 2. When Alexios was sent to reassert the emperor’s authority over Balliol in the mid1070s, the inhabitants of Amaseia booed and jeered him when he took the Norman prisoner. Anna Komnene, I.2, pp. 11–13. • 3. Matthew of Edessa, II.72, p. 144. •
4. J-C. Cheynet and D. Theodoridis, Sceaux byzantins de la collection D. Theodoridis (Paris, 2010), pp. 26–8. • 5. Nikephoros Palaiologos still held this position in 1081. Nikephoros Bryennios, III.15, p. 239. • 6. J-C. Cheynet and J-F. Vannier, Etudes Prosopographiques (Paris, 1986), pp. 57–74; Cheynet and Theodoridis, Sceaux byzantins, pp. 54– 6; C. MacEvitt, The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance (Philadelphia, 2008), pp. 41–2. • 7. For example, Michael Angold, The Byzantine Empire 1025–1204 (London, 1984), pp. 112–13; France, Victory in the East, pp. 155–6; J. Flori, La Première Croisade: l’Occident chrétien contre l’Islam aux origines des idéologies occidentales (Paris, 2001), p. 64; P. Magdalino, ‘The Medieval Empire (780–1204)’ in C. Mango (ed.),