After a series of studies dedicated to the relations between Turks and Byzantium published in various journals or collections of studies, Rustam Shukurov provides in this book a comprehensive and impressive image of something which could be considered, as Barbara Tuchman has wrote for the western fourteenth century, a "distant mirror." This mirror shows to us how a well-organized and administered empire, reduced in size after the Fourth Crusade, confronted an immigration process that eventually contributed to its destruction….

Rustam Shukurov. The Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461. The Medieval Mediterranean: Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1500, 105. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

From The Medieval Review (TMR). Review by Alexandru Madgearu, The Institute for Political Studies of Defence and Military History, Bucharest, Romania