Latin Romania
19.99 €
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Latin Romania
19.99 €
In the book of the famous Russian Medievist and Byzantine S. P. Karpov, for the first time in the complex, the history of the states founded in the XII-XV centuries by Western European knights, as well as the Venetians, Genoese, Catalans in the territories conquered from Byzantium or obtained under treaties is studied. The lands of Latin Romania were scattered over a large area - from the Adriatic to the Northern Black Sea region. Their fates bizarrely intertwined with the history of neighboring countries and peoples, including Paleologov Byzantium, the Golden Horde, Ancient Russia. Among them are large feudal lordies (such as the Achaean principality) and trading settlements, sometimes turning into large cities (Caffa, Pera), and small trading stations and castles on a “foreign” land. The book, built as a system of essays, acquaints the reader with the phenomenon of Latin Romania, its peculiar culture, with the roads connecting West and East, with the fates of people of that distant era. Among them are witnesses of the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, and noble patricians who served the Trebizond emperors, and Genoese consuls, and daring pirates. The book widely used unpublished documents of the Venetian, Genoese archives, St. Petersburg manuscript collections. Much attention is paid to interethnic relations, problems of family and marriage, the formation of a new culture based on the synthesis of Byzantine and Western European traditions, the struggle and cooperation of Greeks and Latins during the classical Middle Ages.
The book is intended for specialists, students of humanitarian faculties of universities, as well as for the widest range of readers. It will introduce you to the unknown side of the history of Byzantium and the West.
The book is intended for specialists, students of humanitarian faculties of universities, as well as for the widest range of readers. It will introduce you to the unknown side of the history of Byzantium and the West.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The New Byzantine Library. Research