Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: 1118 births, 1118 deaths, 1118 disestablishments, 1118 establishments, Alexios I Komnenos, Andronikos I Komnenos, Manuel I Komnenos, Pope Paschal II, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, Florence of Worcester, Nur ad-Din Zangi, List of state leaders in 1118, Matilda of Scotland, Ruaidri na Saide Buide, Ahmed ar-Rifa'i, Philippa, Countess of Toulouse, Taira no Kiyomori, Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey, Saigy H shi, Abbey of Fontenay, Adelaide del Vasto, Arnulf of Chocques, William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, Roger III, Duke of Apulia, George of Chqondidi, Preuilly Abbey, Dietrich I, Margrave of Lusatia, Diarmait Ua Briain, Al-Mustazhir, Basil the Physician, Gualdim Pais, Kingdom of Lori, Mehmed I of Great Seljuq, Philip of Sweden, Reichenbach Abbey, Gissur Isleifsson, Vladimir of Duklja, Odo II, Duke of Burgundy, Lithuise of Blois, Bernard, Count of Cerdanya, Raymond of Toulouse, Gerard of Potenza, Milo II of Montlhery, Lidanus, William III, Count of Angouleme. Excerpt: Manuel I Komnenos (or Comnenus) (Greek: , Manou l I Komn nos) (November 28, 1118 - September 24, 1180) was a Byzantine Emperor of the 12th century who reigned over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean. Eager to restore his empire to its past glories as the superpower of the Mediterranean world, Manuel pursued an energetic and ambitious foreign policy. In the process he made alliances with the Pope and the resurgent west, invaded Italy, successfully handled the passage of the dangerous Second Crusade through his empire, and established a Byzantine protectorate over the Crusader states of Outremer. Facing Muslim advances in the Holy Land, he made common cause with the Kingdom of Jerusalem and participated in a combined invasion of Fatimid Egypt. Manuel reshaped the political maps of the Balkan...