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Viewing the Morea - Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese (Hardcover, New)
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Viewing the Morea - Land and People in the Late Medieval Peloponnese (Hardcover, New)
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The fourteen essays in Viewing the Morea focus on the late medieval
Morea (Peloponnese), beginning with the bold attempt of Western
knights to establish a kingdom on foreign soil. Reinserted into
this tale of Crusader foundation are the large numbers of Orthodox
villagers who shared the region and created their own narrative of
an eternal and sacred empire generated by the pains of loss and the
hopes of refoundation. Layered upon the historical and physical
topography of the region are the traces of the Venetians, whose
right eye, Modon, was located at the peninsula's southwestern tip.
How these groups interacted and how they asserted identity is at
the center of inquiry in these essays. Also at the core of this
study is the understanding of place and memory-the recollection of
the ancient history of the Peloponnese, the architectural and
cartographic marking of its mountains and valleys, the re-creation
of distant capitals on its land, and the refashioning of the Morea
for a Renaissance audience. The authors look at the Morea and its
people in the broadest possible manner and with careful attention
to written and material evidence, historiography, economic
networks, and the making-or retelling-of myths.
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