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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797374003321

Autore

Perry David M. <1973->

Titolo

Sacred plunder : Venice and the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade / / David M. Perry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-271-06681-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 233 pages :) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

945.304

Soggetti

Crusades in literature

Relics in literature

Group identity - Italy - Venice - History - To 1500

Crusades - Fourth, 1202-1204

Crusades - Fourth, 1202-1204 - Historiography

Venice (Italy) History 697-1508

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contexts.  Constantinople's relics, 1204-1261 -- Pope Innocent III and sacrilege, 1204-1215 -- Texts. The translatio narratives of the Fourth Crusade -- Interpretations -- Outcomes. Translatio and Venice before and after 1204 -- Translatio and the myth of Venice.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--