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Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 Crusade, Religion and Trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor. Between the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 and the consolidation of Ottoman power in the fifteenth century, the area was a complex political, ethnic and religious mosaic, made up of Frankish... Read more
Contents: Preface, Jonathan Harris; Introduction, Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Mike Carr; Part I Frankish Greece between East and West: New frontiers: Frankish Greece and the development of crusading in the early 13th century, Nikolaos G. Chrissis; The Latin empire and Western contacts with Asia, Bernard Hamilton. Part II Byzantine Reactions to the Latins: Golden Athens: episcopal wealth and power in Greece at the time of the crusades, Teresa Shawcross; Demetrius Kydones’ 'History of the Crusades': reality or rhetoric?, Judith Ryder. Part III Latins between Greeks and Turks in the 14th Century: Trade or crusade? The Zaccaria of Chios and crusades against the Turks, Mike Carr; Sanudo, Turks, Greeks and Latins in the early 14th century, Peter Lock. Part IV The Ottomans’ Western ’Frontier’: A Damascene eyewitness to the Battle of Nicopolis: Shams al-Din Ibn al-Jazari (d.833/1429), Ilker Evrim Binbas; Bayezid I’s foreign policy plans and priorities: power relations, statecraft, military conditions and diplomatic practice in Anatolia and the Balkans, Rhoads Murphey; Conclusion, Bernard Hamilton; Index.
Biography
Nikolaos Chrissis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Athens, Greece. Mike Carr is a Rome Research Fellow at the British School at Rome, Italy.
'... this edited volume provides a wide range of topics in essays that go into great and fascinating scholarly depth. The book makes a solid attempt at getting historians from a variety of different historical periods to share their scholarship and work to expand their fields by making interesting cross-cultural comparisons in their studies. In this regard, Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean is certainly a step in the right direction.' Hortulus
