Author: Harold E. LurierPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Achaea (Greece: Principality)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Crusaders as Conquerors
Author: Harold E. LurierPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press
ISBN:
Category : Achaea (Greece: Principality)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Crusaders as Conquerors: the Chronicle of Morea
Author: Chronicle of MoreaCrusaders as Conquerors
Author: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Author: Kenneth Meyer SettonPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299066703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The six volumes of A History of the Crusades will stand as the definitive history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Moslem, and Christian perspectives, and containing a wealth of information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world.
Colonizing Christianity
Author: George E. DemacopoulosPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 082328445X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek community over how best to respond to the Latin other while illuminating the mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East. The experience of colonial subjugation opened permanent fissures within the Orthodox community, which struggled to develop a consistent response to aggressive demands for submission to the Roman Church.
The Old French Chronicle of Morea
Author: Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472473876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
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 their relations with the reviving Byzantine Empire during the 13th century. It is also an important source for the growth of the Venetian maritime empire. Most of the action centers on the Peloponnesus, then called Achaia or Morea, where crusaders William of Champlitte and Geoffrey of Villehardouin (nephew of the famous chronicler) established a principality and the Villehardouins a dynasty. Preserved in a unique fourteenth-century manuscript, the Old French version of the Chronicle of Morea is a contemporary account of Frankish feudal life transposed onto foreign soil. It describes clashes, conquests, and ransoms between the Franks and Byzantines, as well as their alliances and arranged marriages. A rich source, the Chronicle of Morea brims with anecdotes giving insight into the operation of feudal justice, the role of noble women in feudal society, the practice of chivalry, and the conduct of warfare. Versions of the Chronicle exist in Aragonese, Greek, and Italian, as well as in Old French. However, this is the first translation into English or any other modern language of the Old French text, thus opening its content to a wider audience.
Exchanges in Exoticism
Author: Megan MoorePublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442661372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men’s. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange – and empire building – extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.
A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, edited by Harry W. Hazard
Author: Kenneth Meyer SettonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Guide to Byzantine Historical Writing
Author: Leonora NevillePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107039983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Makes the study of medieval Greek historical writing accessible by providing fundamental orientation and information.
Remembering the Crusades and Crusading
Author: Megan Cassidy-WelchPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134861516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Remembering the Crusades and Crusading examines the diverse contexts in which crusading was memorialised and commemorated in the medieval world and beyond. The collection not only shows how the crusades were commemorated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but also considers the longer-term remembrance of the crusades into the modern era. This collection is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with the textual, material and visual sources used to remember. Each contributor introduces a particular body of source material and presents case studies using those sources in their own research. The second section contains four chapters examining specific communities active in commemorating the crusades, including religious communities, family groups and royal courts. Finally, the third section examines the cultural memory of crusading in the Byzantine, Iberian and Baltic regions beyond the early years, as well as the trajectory of crusading memory in the Muslim Middle East. This book draws together and extends the current debates in the history of the crusades and the history of memory and in so doing offers a fresh synthesis of material in both fields. It will be essential reading for students of the crusades and memory.