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Title Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453 : crusade, religion and trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks / edited by Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Mike Carr
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (232 pages) : maps
Series Crusades. Subsidia ; 5
Crusades. Subsidia ; 5.
Contents New frontiers : Frankish Greece and the development of crusading in the early thirteenth century / Nikolaos Chrissis -- The Latin Empire and western contacts with Asia / Bernard Hamilton -- 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 -- Trade or crusade?: the Zaccaria of Chios and crusades against the Turks / Mike Carr -- Sanudo, Turks, Greeks and Latins in the early fourteenth century / Peter Lock -- A Damascene eyewitness to the battle of Nicopolis: Shams al-Din ibn al-Jazari (d. 833/1429) / Ilker Evrim Bindas -- 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
Summary "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 emirates, and 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, inter-religious relations within communities, intellectual movements, and geographical exploration"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Crusades -- 13th-15th centuries.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Crusades
SUBJECT Latin Empire, 1204-1261. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074940
Byzantine Empire -- History -- 1081-1453. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018503
Greece -- History -- 1261-1453
Subject Byzantine Empire
Europe -- Latin Empire, 1204-1261
Greece
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Chrissis, Nikolaos G., editor.
Carr, Mike, 1984- editor.
ISBN 9781409439271
1409439275
1317161041
9781317161042