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ISBN: | 9780226561547 0226561542 0226561496 9780226561493
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-323) and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during the period 1081-1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of European history in the late medieval and early modern period, McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political bases of Venetian power and wealth, and the city's unique status at the frontier between the papal and Orthodox Christian worlds. He pays particular attention to Venetian influence upon southeastern Europe, and f.
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Other form: | Print version: McNeill, William Hardy, 1917- Venice. Midway reprint ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986, ©1974 0226561496
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