The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece

by Teresa Shawcross

The Chronicle of Morea, one of the most important and controversial historical narratives written in the late Middle Ages, tells the story of the formation and government by the Villehardouin dynasty of a remarkably successful Crusader State following the conquest by western invaders of the
capital - Constantinople - and the provinces of the Byzantine Empire. By examining all the Chronicle's surviving Greek, French, Spanish and Italian versions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199557004
• ISBN13: 9780199557004
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 340 Pages