The Helonaki Deep Dive 2.4

The (Byzantine) Empire Strikes Back

Release date: April 22, 2022

Map of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa centered on the Mediterranean Sea with an inset map of the Peloponnese with the locations of Sicily, Venice, Constantinople, Crete, Corinth, Vostitsa, Patras, Modon, Coron, Mistra, Monemvasia, Nikli, Maina, Kalamata, Kalavryta, Andravida, and Chlemoutsi.

Description:

The Principality of Achaia, founded by Franks after the 4th Crusade, enjoyed almost 50 years of undisputed rule in the Morea (Peloponnese) before the reformed Byzantine Empire regained a foothold in the Morea.

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  • Essays on the Latin Orient (Miller, 1921) Internet Archive
  • The Late Medieval Balkans (Fine, 1994) Bookshop
  • The Oxford History of Byzantium (Mango, 2002) Bookshop
  • Crusaders as Conquerors (Lurier, 1964) Worldcat
  • The Franks in the Peloponnese (Tozer, 1883) JSTOR
  • Byzantium Confronts the West: 1180 - 1204 (Brand, 1992) Worldcat
  • Byzantium Between the Ottomans and the Latins (Necipoglu, 2009) Bookshop
  • A History of the Crusades: The Later Crusades (eds. Wolff and Hazard, 1969) UWDC History Collection
  • The Encounter of Two Societies: Western Conquerors and Byzantines in the Peloponnesus after the Fourth Crusade (Jacoby, 1973) JSTOR
  • The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece (Shawcross, 2009) Bookshop
  • A History of the Crusades: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (ed. Wolff, 1975) UWDC History Collection

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The Helonaki Deep Dive is written and produced by Jen Glaubius of The Helonaki