A Companion to Latin Greece (Brill's Companions to European History, 6)

Book info: A Companion to Latin Greece (Brill's Companions to European History, 6) (Hardcover, 544 pages) – Brill, 2014. Language: English.

The conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the armies of the Fourth Crusade resulted in the foundation of several Latin political entities in the lands of Greece. The Companion to Latin Greece offers thematic overviews of the history of the mixed societies that emerged as a result of the conquest. With dedicated chapters on the art, literature, architecture, numismatics, economy, social and religious organisation and the crusading involvement of these Latin states, the volume offers an introduction to the study of Latin Greece and a sampler of the directions in which the field of research is moving.Contributors are: Nikolaos Chrissis, Charalambos Gasparis, Anastasia Papadia-Lala, Nicholas Coureas, David Jaccoby, Julian Baker, Gill Page, Maria Georgopoulou and Sophia Kalopissi-Verti. Editorial Reviews About the Author Nickiphoros I. Tsougarakis, studied for his PhD at the Institute for Medieval Studies of the University of Leeds and is now Lecturer in History at Edge Hill University. He is the author of The Latin Religious Orders in Medieval Greece, 1204-1500 (Turnhout, 2012).

Peter Lock, Professor of History at York St John University, retired in August 2008. He is the author of Franks in the Aegean (London, 1995), The Routledge Companion to the Crusades (London, 2006) and has translated The Book of the Secrets of the Cross by Marino Sanudo Torsello (Farnham, 2011). He has edited The Archaeology of Medieval Greece (Oxford, 1996) with Guy Sanders.