Donald M. Nicol, Nicol Donald M.

Byzantium and Venice

A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the diplomatic, cultural, and commercial links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of the Venetian Republic to the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. It aims to show how, with the encouragement of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time, the author points to those important cultural and, above all, political reasons why the relationship between the two states was always inherently unstable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 773g
• ISBN-13: 9780521428941
• ISBN-10: 0521428947
• Artikelnr.: 21703550

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
Maps of the Byzantine and Venetian worlds
1. Venice: the Byzantine province
2. Venice: the Byzantine protectorate
3. Venice: the ally of Byzantium
4. Venice: the partner of Byzantium
5. Byzantium, Venice and the First Crusade
6. The parting of the ways
7. The calm before the storm
8. The Fourth Crusade
9. Venice in Byzantium: the Empire of Romania
10. Venice: champion of a lost cause
11. Byzantium, Venice and the Angevin threat
12. Byzantium, Venice and Genoa
13. Conflicting interests and competing claims
14. Byzantium, Venice and the Turks
15. Byzantium: the victim of commercial rivalry
16. The profit and honour of Venice
17. Jewels for an island
18. Byzantium in thrall to the Turks and in debt to Venice
19. Byzantine optimism and Venetian vacillation
20. Byzantium the suppliant of Venice
21. The worst news for all of Christendom: Venice and the fall of Constantinople
22. Legacies and debts
Byzantine Emperors
Doges of Venice
Bibliography
Index.