10 Tsougarakis
publication of primary sources. Robert Lee Wolff wrote on the political and reli-
gious organisation of Latin-dominated Constantinople.11 Raymond Loenertz,
in an exceptionally prolific career, contributed immensely to the study of the
Franks in central Greece, of the Venetians in the Aegean islands and of the
establishment of the Latin Church (especially the Dominican friars) in Latin
Greece.12 Freddy Thiriet wrote the definitive survey of Venice’s involvement in
Latin Romania and supplemented this with a multivolume edition of relevant
archival materials from Venice.13 Michel Balard undertook the same task with
regards to the Genoese territories.14 Kenneth Setton wrote extensively on the
Catalans and Florentines of Athens and Boeotia and moreover produced the
best account to date of the Latin involvement in medieval and early modern
Greece: his four-volume The Papacy and the Levant is unparalleled both in its
scope and in its detail.15 Most importantly, it succeeds with great narrative flair
in setting the historical developments of the Eastern Mediterranean within
their wider European political context. The work of at least two more scholars,
who have continued to publish with astounding regularity since the 1950s and
’60s deserves particular mention: Anthony Luttrell has almost single-handedly
11 See for example, Robert Lee Wolff, “The Latin Empire of Constantinople and
the Franciscans,” Traditio 2 (1944), 213–37; idem, “Romania: The Latin Empire of
Constantinople,” Speculum 23 (1948), 1–34; idem, “The Organization of the Latin
Patriarchate of Constantinople,” Traditio 6 (1948), 33–60; idem, “Baldwin of Flanders
and Hainaut, First Latin Emperor of Constantinople: His Life, Death and Resurrection,
1172–1225,” Speculum 27 (1952), 281–322; idem, “A New Document from the Period of the
Latin Empire of Constantinople: The Oath of the Venetian Podesta,” Annuaire de l’Institut
de Philologie et d’Histoire Orientales et Slaves, 12 (1952), 539–73; idem, “Politics in the Latin
Patriarchate of Constantinople, 1204–1261,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 8 (1954), 225–304;
many of these articles, and others, are reprinted in idem, Studies in the Latin Empire of
Constantinople (London, 1976).
12 Indicatively, see Raymond Joseph Loenertz, Les Ghisi, dynastes vénitiens dans l’Archipel,
1207–1390 (Florence, 1975), as well as the two volumes of his collected essays: idem,
Byzantina et Franco-Graeca i, ed. Peter Schreiner (Rome, 1970) and Byzantina et Franco-
Graeca ii, ed. Peter Schreiner (Rome, 1978).
13 Freddy Thiriet, La Romanie vénitienne au moyen âge: le développement et l’exploitation du
domaine colonial vénitien, xiie–xve siècles (Paris, 1959); idem, ed., Régestes des délibéra-
tions du sénat de Venise concernant la Romanie: 1329–1463, 3 vols. (Paris, 1958–61); idem, ed.,
Délibérations des assemblées vénitiennes concernant la Romanie: 1160–1463, 2 vols. (Paris,
1966–71).
14 See in particular Michel Balard, La Romanie génoise (xiie-début du xve siècle), 2 vols.
(Rome, 1978).
15 Kenneth M. Setton, The Papacy in the Levant (1204–1571), 4 vols. (Philadelphia, 1976–84);
see also his collected studies in idem, Athens in the Middle Ages (London, 1975), and idem,
Catalan Domination of Athens, 1311–1388 (London, 1975).