Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204

The Evidence of Art and Material Culture

Edited by Sophia Kalopissi-Verti Edited by Vicky Foskolou

Book cover: Intercultural Encounters in Medieval Greece after 1204

Extent: 572, 572 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Art & Art History, Medieval Studies, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Byzantioc. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization

Series volume number: 19

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(June 2022)

ISBN: 9782503598505

Price: $119.00

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This volume is a contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue on a crucial topic, viz. the relations between East and West and their reflection in art and culture in late medieval Greece.


Based on the evidence of artistic production and material culture this collective volume aims at exploring cross-cultural relations and interaction between Greeks and Latins in late medieval Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. Fourteen essays discuss mostly new and unpublished archaeological and artistic material, including architecture, sculpture, wall-paintings and icons, pottery and other small finds, but also the evidence of music and poetry. Through the surviving material of these artistic activities this volume explores the way Byzantines and Latins lived side by side on the Greek mainland and the Aegean islands from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and traces the mechanisms that led to the emergence of the new, composite world of the Latin East. Issues of identity, patronage, papal policy, the missionary activities of the Latin religious orders and the reactions and responses of the Byzantines are also re-considered, offering fresh insights into and a better understanding of the various manifestations of the interrelationship between the two ethnicities, confessions and cultures.

  • Edited by Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
  • Edited by Vicky Foskolou