Sacred plunder : Venice and the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade /
Explores the emergence of a body of texts about relics transported from Constantinople to the West as a after the Fourth Crusade, and the role of these texts in the development of Venice's civic identity in the thirteenth century.
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Contexts. Constantinople's relics, 1204-1261
- Pope Innocent III and sacrilege, 1204-1215
- Texts. The translatio narratives of the Fourth Crusade
- Interpretations
- Outcomes. Translatio and Venice before and after 1204
- Translatio and the myth of Venice.