One of the long-awaited releases in the field of religious and medieval studies is George E. Demacopoulos’ Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade. The book analyzes two major Latin and two major Byzantine texts from the thirteenth century as well as the Chronicle of Morea, a product of the Byzantine-Latin admixture or “hybridization” on the Peloponnesus, to offer an interpretation of the crusades as a form of Western colonialism.
