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Greeks and Latins During the Crusades and the Question of Colonialism: Review of Demacopoulos, Colonizing Christianity

by Sergei P. Brun

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.

Sergei P. Brun

Sergei P. Brun is a Russian historian specializing in the history of the Latin East and the Church of Antioch. His is the author of several articles, papers, translations, as well as the two-volume monograph The Byzantines and the Franks in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia (Moscow, 2015). Currently he is a staff member at St. Thomas Institute in Moscow and a member of the editorial board of The Historic Reporter.

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