Contact And Conflict In Frankish Greece And The Aegean, 1204-1453: Crusade, Religion And Trade Between Latins, Greeks And Turks (crusades - Subsidia)
by Nikolaos G. Chrissis /
2014 / English / PDF
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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 lordships, Italian colonies, Turkish beyliks, as well
as a number of states that professed to be the continuators of the
Byzantine imperial tradition. This volume brings together western
medievalists, Byzantinists and Ottomanists, combining recent
research in the relevant fields in order to provide a holistic
interpretation of this world of extreme fragmentation. Eight
stimulating papers explore various factors that defined contact and
conflict between Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks,
highlighting common themes that run through this period and
evaluating the changes that occurred over time. Particular emphasis
is given on the crusades and the way they affected interaction in
the area. Although the impact of the crusades on Byzantine history
leading up to 1204 has been extensively examined in the past, there
has been little research on the way crusading was implemented in
Greece and the Aegean after that point. Far from being limited to
crusading per se, however, the papers put it into its wider context
and examine other aspects of contact, such as trade, interfaith
relations, and geographical exploration.
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 lordships, Italian colonies, Turkish beyliks, as well
as a number of states that professed to be the continuators of the
Byzantine imperial tradition. This volume brings together western
medievalists, Byzantinists and Ottomanists, combining recent
research in the relevant fields in order to provide a holistic
interpretation of this world of extreme fragmentation. Eight
stimulating papers explore various factors that defined contact and
conflict between Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks,
highlighting common themes that run through this period and
evaluating the changes that occurred over time. Particular emphasis
is given on the crusades and the way they affected interaction in
the area. Although the impact of the crusades on Byzantine history
leading up to 1204 has been extensively examined in the past, there
has been little research on the way crusading was implemented in
Greece and the Aegean after that point. Far from being limited to
crusading per se, however, the papers put it into its wider context
and examine other aspects of contact, such as trade, interfaith
relations, and geographical exploration.