Byzantium and Venice : a study in diplomatic and cultural relations /
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| Author / Creator: | Nicol, Donald MacGillivray |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. |
| Description: | x, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/923176 |
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