Scholars on Byzantium I need you

Ok I am up at 2 o clock in the morning needing to write 2 to 3 pages for a narrative draft that is due tommorow. Now the reason why I am calling the scholars help is because this narrative draft is on Byzantine diplomacy throughout it's history. I have to use these preliminary resources from a book called "The West in the Wider World" by Richard Lim and David Kammerling Smith. Right now my work is starting out with an old Byzantine diplomat writing a journal in the year 1449. If anyone can give me some ideas to write about for some good story telling I would love to read it.