Byzantium and VeniceCambridge University Press
Donald M. Nicol
ISBN: 0521428947
price: $32.95 paperback
This book traces the diplomatic, cultural, and commercial
links between Constantinople and Venice from the foundation of
the Venetian Republic to the Fall of the Byzantine Empire. It
aims to show how, with the encouragement of the Fourth Crusade in
1204, the Venetians came to dominate first the Genoese and
thereafter the whole Byzantine economy. At the same time, the
author points to those important cultural and, above all,
political reasons why the relationship between the two states was
always inherently unstable.
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