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of the crusading movement in general and the reassessment of the Fourth
Crusade in particular (largely effected through the works of Donald Queller
and Thomas Madden).20 Accordingly there has been a proliferation of studies
focusing both on political history (both general and more localised) as well as
on the social, religious, economic and art history of the period. This output
cannot be adequately summarised here, and the reader is referred to the foot-
notes accompanying each chapter and the extensive bibliography appended
to the volume, but a few trends and contributions may be noted. Peter Lock’s
The Franks in the Aegean provided a much needed new account of the whole
period (with particular emphasis on, but not solely restricted to, the Frankish
domains) which is both thorough and accessible.21 The issue of Greco-Latin
relations and interactions has continued to engage historians with stimulating
results: Aneta Ilieva’s Frankish Morea was the first monograph to approach the
topic so systematically.22 More recently, Sally McKee’s Uncommon Dominion
provided a fresh, attractive and very influential perspective on the matter, by
examining it through the prism of identities.23 Charalambos Gasparis has filled
in much of the detail as regards the economic and social history of Venetian
Crete, both through his own writings and through his impressive editions of
primary material;24 and Anastasia Papadia-Lala has shed light on the evolution
of civic communities and institutions in the Venetian Stato da Mar.25 A very
20 See in particular, Donald E. Queller and Thomas F. Madden, The Fourth Crusade: The
Conquest of Constantinople, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia, 1997).
21 Peter Lock, The Franks in the Aegean, 1204–1500 (London, 1995).
22 Aneta Ilieva, Frankish Morea (1205–1262): Socio-cultural Interaction between the Franks and
the Local Population (Athens, 1991).
23 Sally McKee, Uncommon Dominion: Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic Purity
(Philadelphia, 2000).
24 Charalambos Gasparis, “Οι επαγγελματίες του Χάνδακα κατά τον 14ο αιώνα. Σχέσεις με τον
καταναλωτή και το κράτος” [“The Professionals of Candia in the 14th Century. Relations
with Consumers and the State”], Σύμμεικτα 8 (1989), 83–133; idem, H γη και οι αγρότες
στη μεσαιωνική Kρήτη, 13ος–14ος αιώνας [Land and Peasantry in Medieval Crete, 13th–14th
Centuries] (Athens, 1997); idem, “Από τη βυζαντινή στη βενετική τούρμα: Κρήτη, 13ος–14ος αι.”
[“From the Byzantine to the Venetian Turma: Crete, 13th–14th Centuries”], Σύμμεικτα
14 (2001), 167–228; idem, “ Έλληνες φεουδάρχες στο σεξτέριο του Dorsoduro. Στοιχεία για
την ελληνική γαιοκτησία στη μεσαιωνική Κρήτη” [“Greek Feudatories in the Sexterium
Dorsoduri. Evidence on Greek Landownership in Medieval Crete”], Σύμμεικτα 15 (2002),
195–227; idem, ed., Catastici Feudorum Crete: Catasticum sexterii Dorsoduri, 1227–1418,
2 vols. (Athens, 2004); idem, ed., Catastici Feudorum Crete: Catasticum Chanee, 1314–1396
(Athens, 2008).
25 Anastasia Papadia-Lala, Ο θεσμός των αστικών κοινοτήτων στον ελληνικό χώρο κατά την
περίοδο της βενετοκρατίας (13ος–18ος αι.): Μια συνθετική προσέγγιση [The Institution of Civic