Byzantium and Venice
Byzantium and Venice
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USDThis 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.
Reviews & endorsements
"The chapter on the crusade highlights the qualities of this book. Nicol not only tells a good story well. He also elucidates the contradictions and key lacunae of the sources with great skill, and he draws upon the vast secondary literature with assurance and judgement." Journal of Ecclesiastical History
"Nicol has done a considerable service in presenting the results of so much labor in a manner that will engage the general reader as well as finding an appreciative scholarly audience." The Slavonic and East European Review
"Professor Nicol's careful, learned and balanced account of the political and diplomatic relations between Byzantium and Venice covers much new ground. The intricate story...is told with impressive mastery of primary and secondary sources." History Today
"Nicol is one of the profession's foremost Byzantine scholars. In many respects this book is a compilation of his life's work and will serve as a foundation for students of the field. For Byzantinists, Nicol's work is the most concise diplomatic history available to date." Irene B. Katele, The International History Review
Product details
April 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511872778
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Table of Contents
- 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.
