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Author Perry, David M., 1973- author.

Title Sacred plunder : Venice and the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade / David M. Perry
Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-223) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Group identity -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- To 1500
Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204 -- Historiography
Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204 -- Sources
Crusades in literature.
Relics in literature.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Crusades
Crusades in literature
Group identity
Historiography
History -- Sources
Relics in literature
SUBJECT Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142722
Subject Italy -- Venice
Genre/Form Sources
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271066813
0271066814