1st Edition

The Old French Chronicle of Morea An Account of Frankish Greece after the Fourth Crusade

Edited By Anne Van Arsdall, Helen Moody Copyright 2015
280 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

Numerous Byzantine and Western sources describing the events of the Fourth Crusade have now been translated into English. However, the same is not true for material on Frankish Greece, despite this region’s importance to late medieval crusading. The Chronicle of Morea is the key source for the history of the Frankish states established in Greece after the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 and... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Historical timeline; Glossary; The Chronicle of Morea; Bibliography; Annotated index of persons and places; List of unnamed women; Index.

Biography

Dr Anne Van Arsdall is a research associate with the Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA; Dr Helen Moody is an independent scholar, specializing in literary history.

"The Chronicle of Morea (CoM) is a fundamental source concerning a major episode in the history of crusading and Medieval Greece."
-Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Democritus University of Thrace