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Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations

By Donald M. Nicol

Book information

Year
1992
ISBN
0521428947, 9780521428941
Open Library ID
OL7740539M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15035360 bytes)
Pages
480\479
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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