1st Edition

The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500

By Peter Lock Copyright 1995
414 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

Despite the enormous literature on the crusades, the Frankish states in the Aegean (set up in the wake of the Fourth Crusade in 1204) have been seriously neglected by modern historians. Yet their history is both compelling in itself - these were the last crusader states to be set up in the eastern Mediterranean and among the last to fall to the Turks - and also valuable for the case study they... Read more
List of Genealogical Tables and Maps.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Currencies and Measurement
1.The Frankish Aegean, Background, Context and Problems.
2 Sources and Historiography.
3. Crusader States of the North Aegean.
4. The Latin States in Greece, 1204-1311.
5. Mainland Greece in the 14th and 15th Centurie.
6. Venice, Genoa and the Aegean.
7. Lordship and Government.
8. The Latin Secular Church.
9. The Religious Orders.
10. Economic Aspects of the Frankish Aegean.
11. Symbiosis and Segregation.
Appendix 1: Chronology of Event.
Appendix 2: List of Rulers Bibliography Genealogical Tables.
Maps.
Index.

Biography

Peter Lock