Medieval Greece : encounters between Latins, Greeks and others in the Dodecanese and the Mani

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Title
"Medieval Greece : encounters between Latins, Greeks and others in the Dodecanese and the Mani"
Statement of Responsibility
Michael Heslop
Publisher
  • Routledge
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hbk
Uniform Title
  • Essays

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Includes bibliographical references (P. 332-336) and index

Summary: "Medieval Greece brings together twelve articles by historian Michael Heslop, showcasing his long-standing interest in the medieval castles of Greece. Ten of the articles in this volume focus on the Dodecanese islands, mainly Rhodes, at the time of their rule by the Hospitallers (Knights of St John) during the period 1306-1522. Scholarly and popular interest in the military orders has grown substantially over the last twenty years, but comparatively little has been written about the Hospitaller Dodecanese. What distinguishes this work is the author's use of hitherto unpublished documents from the Hospitaller archives in Malta and his assiduous field work on the island sites discussed. Heslop's work on the Hospitallers on the island of Rhodes has also enabled him to put together an important gazetteer of place-names in the countryside of Rhodes, published here for the first time. The final two articles of the collection summarize ground-breaking detective work to locate Villehardouin's 'lost' castle o

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