A Companion to Latin Greece

72 Chrissis

cannot be thought of except as a grievous loss to our own religion and as

a vast dishonour to the Latin name.162

Crusading had a protean nature and it adapted to the changing circumstances:
in Romania, Holy War was pursued first against the Byzantines, then in alli-
ance with them, and eventually, in theory at least, for their protection. But the
deeper shifts in perception were not as quick to follow these changes. By the
15th century, the past of the crusade in Greece haunted its present.

162 Setton, Papacy, 2:96.