George E. Demacopoulos

Colonizing Christianity

Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade

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Produktbeschreibung

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. It argues that the experience colonization splintered the Greek community, which could not agree how best to respond to the Latin other.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780823284436
• ISBN-10: 0823284433
• Artikelnr.: 53538270

Autorenporträt

George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He is also a Co-founding Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He serves as a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and as President of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America. He is the author of five monographs and dozens of scholarly articles of the history of Christianity in the premodern period.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Robert de Clari 13
2. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana 35
3. Innocent's Ambivalence 49
4. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental
Miscegenation 73
5. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) 89
6. The Chronicle of Morea 103
Conclusion 123
Acknowledgments 131
Notes 133
Index 177