The Latin renovatio of Byzantium : the Empire of Constantinople, 1204-1228
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The Latin renovatio of Byzantium : the Empire of Constantinople, 1204-1228
（The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1453 / editors, Michael Whitby ... [et al.], v. 90）
Brill, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-519) and index
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In 1204 the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked the great city of Constantinople. In earlier historiography the view prevailed that these Western barons and knights temporarily destroyed the Byzantine state and replaced it with a series of feudal states of their own making. Through a comprehensive rereading of better and lesser-known sources this book offers an alternative perspective arguing that the Latin rulers did not abolish, but very consciously wanted to continue the Eastern Empire. In this, the new imperial dynasty coming from Flanders-Hainaut played a pivotal role. Despite religious and other differences many Byzantines sided with the new regime and administrative practices at the different governmental levels were to a larger or lesser degree maintained.
Table of Contents
Preface ... ix
Maps ... xi
Introduction ... 1
Prologue ... 15
Chapter One The Constitutional Treaties of 1204-1205: The Latin Restructuring of Byzantium ... 41
Chapter Two The Imperial Ideology ... 61
Chapter Three The Imperial Quarter ... 103
Chapter Four Imperial Authority within the Empire in Its Entirety ... 157
Chapter Five The Central Elite ... 251
Chapter Six Religion, Church and Empire ... 307
Chapter Seven The Byzantine Space ... 351
Chapter Eight The Latin Orient ... 433
Conclusion ... 473
Bibliography ... 483
Index ... 521
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