The Franks in the Aegean: 1204-1500

by Peter Lock

Book Overview

Despite the enormous literature on the crusades, the Frankish states in the Aegean (set up in the wake of the Fourth Crusade in 1204) have been seriously neglected by modern historians. Yet their history is both compelling in itself - these were the last crusader states to be set up in the eastern Mediterranean and among the last to fall to the Turks - and also valuable for the case study they offer in medieval colonialism. Peter Lock surveys the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00EZ24R3K
• ISBN13: 9780582051393
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"