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Sacred plunder : Venice and the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade / David M. Perry.
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, David M., 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades in literature.
- Relics in literature.
- Group identity--Italy--Venice--History--To 1500.
- Group identity.
- Crusades--Fourth, 1202-1204--Sources.
- Crusades.
- Crusades--Fourth, 1202-1204--Historiography.
- Venice (Italy)--History--697-1508.
- Venice (Italy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 233 pages :) illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Explores the emergence of a body of texts about relics transported from Constantinople to the West as a after the Fourth Crusade, and the role of these texts in the development of Venice's civic identity in the thirteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Contexts. Constantinople's relics, 1204-1261
- Pope Innocent III and sacrilege, 1204-1215
- Texts. The translatio narratives of the Fourth Crusade
- Interpretations
- Outcomes. Translatio and Venice before and after 1204
- Translatio and the myth of Venice.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271066813
- 0271066814
- OCLC:
- 966823225
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