Essays on the Latin Orient
Essays on the Latin Orient, published by Cambridge University Press in 1921, collects the articles William Miller had written over twenty-five years on Greece and the Balkans under foreign rule, the field of his book The Latins in the Levant. After surveys of Roman and Byzantine Greece, the central section treats the Frankish conquest after 1204 and the states it created, the princes of the Peloponnese, the dukes of Athens, Florentine Athens, the duchy of Naxos, Crete and the Ionian Islands under Venice, Monemvasia, Boudonitza and Salonika, then the Genoese colonies, Turkish Greece and the Venetian revival of 1684 to 1718. Shorter pieces cover Valona, medieval Serbia, Bosnia, the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem and Anna Comnena. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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