CONTACT AND CONFLICT IN FRANKISH GREECE AND THE AEGEAN

A one-day conference is organised by Dr. Nikolaos Chrissis and Michael Carr, under the auspices of the SSCLE, entitled: ‘Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean: crusade, trade and religion amongst Latins, Greeks and Muslims, 1204-1453’, with the sponsorship of the Department of History of Royal Holloway, University of London, and with further support and funding by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS).
The conference will be dedicated in memory of Konstantinos Ikonomopoulos, student of the Hellenic Institute and the History Department of Royal Holloway (1980-2009).  The conference will explore new aspects of the interaction between Byzantine Greeks, Latins and Turks in the period between the Fourth Crusade (1204) and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It will combine the participants' original research on crusading in the Greek East in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with the latest advances in Byzantine and Crusade historiography. A broad range of themes will be explored, including the implementation and evolution of the crusade in the area, the religious landscape and political balance of a land shared by Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks, and the role of trade in fostering closer contact between the three sides. The conference programme brings together both established academics and postdoctoral research students from Britain and beyond.

Ultimo aggiornamento: 16 November 2010