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31 mai 2022
- doi: 10.58079/r91m
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Nafsika Vassilopoulou, « ‘Like a nightingale in the cage’: City sieges in the Late Byzantine vernacular Chronicle of Morea », Martial Culture in Medieval Town, ID : 10.58079/r91m
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In the early 13th century, the armies of the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) deviated from their course and conquered Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire. After that, Crusader leaders split the Empire and a group of Frankish knights led by Guillaume de Champlitte set to subdue the Morea (Peloponnese), in southern Greece. A new society, multicultural and multilingual, emerged in Latin-occupied Morea and one of its most important literary specimens is the Chronicle of Morea[1], an ear...