ΦΡΑΓΚΟΚΡΑΤΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ ΜΟΡΙΑΣ 1205-1262

Παρουσίαση

This book is the result of both scholarly research and seminar activity in the Department of History, University of Sofia. It has two 'starting points': on the one hand, the interest in the so called 'westernization' of Byzantium during the twelfth century; on the other, the ambition to approach the explanation of the Palaiologan renaissance in the Morea by placing it not only in time but also in space. Mistra rose in constant fight with the neighbouring Principality of Achaia established in the peninsula by the knights of the Fourth Crusade after 1204. Regardless of the turns in its historical fate as well as of all the efforts of Byzantium, the Principality survived until 1430 - 1432. What kept up the Morea of the Franks for more than two centuries? (...) (from the publisher)