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9780271065083 Academic Inspection Copy

Sacred Plunder

Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade
  • ISBN-13: 9780271065083
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By David M. Perry
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 15/03/2016
  • Format: Paperback 248 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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Explores the emergence of a body of texts about relics transported from Constantinople to the West as a after the Fourth Crusade, and the role of these texts in the development of Venice's civic identity in the thirteenth century.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Contexts

1. Constantinople’s Relics, 1204–1261

2. Pope Innocent III and Sacrilege, 1204–1215

Part II: Texts

3. The Translatio Narratives of the Fourth Crusade

4. Interpretations

Part III: Outcomes

5. Translatio and Venice Before and After 1204

6. Translatio and the Myth of Venice

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“Meticulously researched, well written, and carefully argued.”

—Holger A. Klein, American Historical Review

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