The Latin renovatio of Byzantium [[electronic resource] ] : the Empire of Constantinople (1204-1228) / / by Filip Van Tricht ; translated by Peter Longbottom

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456413103321
• Autore: Tricht Filip van
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-16149-4; 9786613161499; 90-04-20392-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (548 p.)
• Collana: The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies, and cultures, 400-1500, , 0928-5520 ; ; v. 90
• Disciplina: 949.504
• Soggetti: Crusades - Fourth, 1202-1204; Imperialism - Social aspects - Byzantine Empire - History; Social change - Byzantine Empire - History; Electronic books.; Latin Empire, 1204-1261; Istanbul (Turkey) History Siege, 1203-1204; Istanbul (Turkey) History To 1453; Istanbul (Turkey) Politics and government; Istanbul (Turkey) Social conditions; Byzantine Empire History 1081-1453; Byzantine Empire Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / F. Van Tricht -- Introduction / F. Van Tricht -- Prologue / F. Van Tricht -- Chapter One. The Constitutional Treaties Of 1204–1205: The Latin Restructuring Of Byzantium / F. Van Tricht -- Chapter Two. The Imperial Ideology / F. Van Tricht -- Chapter Three. The Imperial Quarter / F. Van Tricht -- Chapter Four. Imperial Authority Within The Empire In Its Entirety / F. Van Tricht -- Chapter Five. The Central Elite / F. Van Tricht -- Chapter Six. Religion, Church And Empire / F. Van Tricht -- Chapter Seven. The Byzantine Space / F. Van ; Tricht -- Chapter Eight. The Latin Orient / F. Van Tricht -- Conclusion / F. Van Tricht -- Bibliography / F. Van Tricht -- Index / F. Van Tricht.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1204 the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked the great city of Constantinople. In earlier historiography the view prevailed that these Western barons and knights temporarily destroyed the Byzantine state and replaced it with a series of feudal states of their own making. Through a comprehensive rereading of better and lesser-known sources this book offers an alternative perspective arguing that the Latin rulers did not abolish, but very consciously wanted to continue the Eastern Empire. In this, the new imperial dynasty coming from Flanders-Hainaut played a pivotal role. Despite religious and other differences many Byzantines sided with the new regime and administrative practices at the different governmental levels were to a larger or lesser degree maintained.