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Author Wright, Christopher

Title The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (487 pages)
Series The Medieval Mediterranean
Medieval Mediterranean.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Family Tree of the Gattilusio Lords; Introduction; Sources; The Geographical Setting; Secondary Literature; Structure; Chapter One Political Context and Development; Background; The Lordships before the Battle of Ankara; From the Battle of Ankara to the Fall of Constantinople; The Last Years; Chapter Two Byzantium: Sovereignty and Legitimacy; The Place of the Lordships in Byzantine Government; Family Relationships and Dynastic Struggles; Legitimacy and Mutual Advantage; The Self-Representation of the Regime
The Impact of the Byzantine ConnectionChapter Three Genoa: Migration and Solidarity; The Place of the Lordships in the Genoese World; Solidarity with the Genoese Community; Physical and Financial Disengagement from the Metropolis; Family Connections and Representatives in Genoa; Conflict Within the Community; The Alum Industry and Genoese Commerce; Chapter Four The Lordships as a Network: Family and Enterprise; Dynastic Policy and the Distribution of Power; The Role of the Extended Family in the Lordships; Commercial Connections; Divergent Patterns of Trade; Piracy
Chapter Five Inside the Lordships: Communities and GovernmentInhabitants of the Lordships; Financial Resources; Latin Settlement; Governmental Forms and Functionaries; Religious Institutions; High Culture, Community Relations and the Union; Chapter Six Latin Christendom: Common Causes and Compromises; Incentives and Disincentives; Crusading against the Turks; The Pursuit of Goodwill; Church Union; The Attitudes of Others; Chapter Seven The Turks: Security and Submission; Forces of Attraction and Repulsion; Turkish Division and Unification; Ottoman Crisis and Recovery; Failure to Endure
The Impetus for ConquestConclusion; Appendix One Old Phokaia; Appendix Two Territorial Acquisitions in the Northern Aegean; Appendix Three The Alum of Maroneia; Bibliography; Index
Summary In The Gattilusio Lordships, Christopher Wright offers a window into the culturally and politically diverse world of the late medieval Aegean, through the microcosm of one of the small and distinctive regimes that flourished in this fragmented environment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Gattilusio, Francesco, 1332-1384 -- Family
SUBJECT Gattilusio, Francesco, 1332-1384 fast
Subject Pirates -- Aegean Sea Region -- Biography
Archons -- Biography
Power (Social sciences) -- Aegean Sea Region -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Archons
Families
International relations
Pirates
Power (Social sciences)
SUBJECT Lesbos (Greece : Municipality) -- Biography
Genoa (Italy) -- Biography
Byzantine Empire -- Relations -- Aegean Sea Region
Aegean Sea Region -- Relations -- Byzantine Empire
Subject Byzantine Empire
Europe -- Aegean Sea Region
Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
Italy -- Genoa
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004264816
9004264817
1306405289
9781306405287
9004264698
9789004264694