Beschreibung:
Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. It argues that the experience colonization splintered the Greek community, which could not agree how best to respond to the Latin other.
Introduction 11. Robert de Clari 132. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana 353. Innocent's Ambivalence 494. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation 735. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) 896. The Chronicle of Morea 103Conclusion 123Acknowledgments 131Notes 133Index 177