The author has undertaken a study of Salonica during the reign of Andronicus II based mainly on new information found in sources published after the appearance of Tafrali's work on Salonica in the fourteenth century. She analyses the political, social and cultural aspects, and concludes with new perspectives on the government of Salonica, the wealth of the Church and rifts in society before 1330. She also draws attention to the extraordinary intellectual vitality of the city and the beginnings of humanism.
