Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations

By Donald M. Nicol and Nicol

Book Overview

This book, the first of this scope to have been published, 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, especially after 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521428947
• ISBN13: 9780521428941
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"