In this magisterial history, National Book Award winner William
H. McNeill chronicles the interactions and disputes between Latin
Christians and the Orthodox communities of eastern Europe during
the period 1081-1797. Concentrating on Venice as the hinge of
European history in the late medieval and early modern period,
McNeill explores the technological, economic, and political bases
of Venetian power and wealth, and the city's unique status at the
frontier between the papal and Orthodox Christian worlds. He pays
particular attention to Venetian influence upon southeastern
Europe, and from such an angle of vision, the familiar pattern of
European history changes shape.
"No other historian would have been capable of writing a book as
direct, as well-informed and as little weighed down by purple prose
as this one. Or as impartial. McNeill has succeeded
admirably."--Fernand Braudel, "Times Literary Supplement"
"The book is serious, interesting, occasionally compelling, and
always suggestive."--Stanley Chojnacki, "American Historical
Review"
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