The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228)

by Filip Van Tricht and Peter Longbottom

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004203230
• ISBN13: 9789004203235
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 548 Pages