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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.

Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 05/03/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823284436, 978-0823284436
      ISBN10: 0823284433
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      Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      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

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