The Latins in Greece: A Brief Introduction 13
welcome re-examination of the political institutions of Latin Constantinople
has recently appeared in the form of Filip van Tricht’s The Latin Renovatio of
Byzantium.26 The brevity of Latin domination over Constantinople has meant
that the history of the Latin Empire’s capital has been somewhat neglected
by historians in recent decades, who have preferred to look at the more dura-
ble regimes of mainland Greece and the islands. Van Tricht’s work goes some
way towards redressing this problem through a very detailed examination of
just the first two decades of the Latin Empire. In closing this short overview
of the historiography of medieval Greece, we would be remiss not to men-
tion the work of Chryssa Maltezou and the Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini
e Postbizantini of Venice, which has published very widely on all aspects of
Greco-Venetian history in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.27
Finally, three recent collected volumes need particular mention here, for
they epitomise the direction in which the scholarship of medieval Greece has
been moving: Judith Herrin’s and Guillaume Saint Guillain’s Identities and
Allegiances in the Eastern Mediterranean after 1204 publishes the proceed-
ings of a conference devoted to the prosopography of the Byzantine world
in the period when no Byzantine Empire existed, that is between 1204 and
1261.28 Byzantines, Latins and Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World after
1150 , meanwhile, deals with the complexity of the interactions between these
three groups and implicitly questions assumptions concerning the lines along
which competition between them developed.29 Finally, Contact and Conflict
Communities in Venetian-Ruled Greek Lands (13th–18th Centuries): A Synthetic Approach],
2nd ed. (Venice, 2008).
26 Filip van Tricht, The Latin Renovatio of Byzantium: The Empire of Constantinople (1204–
1228) (Leiden, 2011).
27 See indicatively, Chryssa A. Maltezou, Ο θεσμός του εν Κωνσταντινουπόλει Βενετού βαΐλου
(1268–1453) [The Institution of the Venetian Baili of Constantinople] (Athens, 1970); eadem,
ed., Όψεις της ιστορίας του βενετοκρατούμενου Ελληνισμού: αρχειακά τεκμήρια [Aspects of the
History of Venetian Rule in Greece: Archival Evidence] (Athens, 1993); eadem, ed., Bisanzio,
Venezia e il mondo franco-greco (xiii–xv secolo): atti del colloquio internazionale organiz-
zato nel centenario della nascita di Raymond-Joseph Loenerz o.p., Venezia, 1–2 Dicembre
2000 (Venice, 2002); eadem and Angeliki Tzavara, and Despina Vlassi, eds., I Greci durante
la venetocrazia: uomini, spazio, idee (xiii–xviii sec.): atti del convegno internazionale di
studi, 3–7 Dicembre 2007 (Venice, 2009); eadem and Angeliki Tzavara, and Despina Vlassi,
eds., Βενετοκρατούμενη Ελλάδα: Προσεγγίζοντας την ιστορία της [Venetian Greece: Approaching
its History], 2 vols. (Athens, 2010).
28 Judith Herrin and Guillaume Saint-Guillain, eds., Identities and Allegiances in the Eastern
Mediterranean after 1204 (Farnham, 2011).
29 Jonathan Harris, Catherine Holmes and Eugenia Russell, eds., Byzantines, Latins and
Turks in the Eastern Mediterranean World after 1150 (Oxford, 2012).