The Landscape of Medieval Greece 359
in Boeotia, Anthony le Flamenc, commissioned a church in a Byzantine plan
(cross-in-square of the four-column type) without any imported elements, obvi-
ously built by local workmen; the church, which eventually housed the tomb of
the patron, was dedicated to St George and served as the katholikon of a Greek
monastery.94 Demetrios Athanasoulis has explained the stylistic resemblances
on mainland Greece (Epirus, Athens, Mistra and Euboea) as the work of a trav-
elling workshop. The Gothic typological influences are restricted; the Gothic
influences on Orthodox church architecture in the region are found mainly in
structure and morphology.95 Other churches show no interest in new decora-
tive details.96 Numerous tiny Byzantine churches perched on hilltops of the
Cretan countryside have the exact same characteristics.97 Nevertheless, some
94 Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, “Relations between East and West in the Lordship of Athens and
Thebes after 1204: Archaeological and Artistic Evidence,” in Archaeology and the Crusades:
Proceedings of the Round Table, Nicosia, 1 February 2005, ed. Peter Edbury and Sophia
Kalopissi-Verti, (Athens, 2007), pp. 12–13.
95 Athanasoulis, “The Triangle of Power,” pp. 146–50.
96 Myrto Georgopoulou-Verra, ed., Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monasteries of Achaia:
Collective volume (Athens, 2006); eadem, The Kastro at Patras, trans. David Hardy (Athens,
2000), esp. pp. 14–38.
97 Klaus Gallas, Klaus Wessel, and Manolis Borboudakis, eds., Byzantinisches Kreta (Munich,
1983).
figure 10.12 Gastouni, Panagia Katholike.
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