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VI: Social Evolution in Latin Greece, pp. 175-221
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Ch. VI SOCIAL EVOLUTION IN LATIN GREECE 179 economic activity and demographic currents in this area after 1204. Although the conquest resulted in a definite break in the political sphere, it did not bring about a similar phenomenon in the social or economic field. Latin Romania witnessed the encounter of various ethnic comisme contemporain, ser. 2, X (1956), 255—295, reprinted in his Studies on Latin Greece A.D. 1205—1 715 (London, 1977). Carile, La Renditafeudale nellaMorea latina delXlVsecolo (Bologna, 1974), is a partly unsuccessful attempt to deal with the society and the economy of the Morea; cf. Jacoby's review in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, LXXIII (1980), 356—361. See also Carile, "Rapporti fra signoria rurale e despoteia alla luce della formazione della rendita feudale nella Morea latina del secolo XIV," Rivista storica italiana, LXXXVIII (1976), 548—570. On the Aegean see Silvano Borsari, Studi sulle colonie veneziane in Romcznia nel XIII secolo (Naples, 1966), which should be corrected and supplemented by Jacoby, La Féodalité, part III, and "Catalans, Turcs et Vénitiens" (both cited above). In addition to his synthesis on the Venetian empire, Thiriet has published numerous articles, several of which are now available in his Etudes sur la Romanie gréco-vénitienne (Xe—XVe siècles) (London, 1977); see especially "La Condition paysanne et les problèmes d'exploitation rurale en Romanie gréco-vénitienne," previously published in Studi veneziani, IX (1967), pp. 35—70, and "Villes et campagnes en Crete vénitienne aux XIVe—XVe siècles," reprinted from Actes du lie Congrès international des etudes du sud-est européen, II (Athens, 1972), 447-459. See also Borsari, IlDominio veneziano a Creta nel XIII secolo (Naples, 1963), which includes numerous excerpts of unpublished documents. Santschi has dealt in several studies with legal problems in Crete; two of them are particularly relevant: La Notion de 7eudum" en Crete vénitienne (XIIIe—XVe siècles) (Montreux, 1976), is useful on the status of military tenures in Crete, but mistaken about "feudalism" in the island. Her study on "Quelques aspects du statut des non-libres en Crete au XIVe siècle," Thesaurismata, IX (1972), 104—136, is partly based on unpublished sources; it requires emendation on many points. Although dealing mainly with a later period, B. J. Slot, Archipelagus turbatus: les Cyclades entre colonisation latine et occupation ottomane c. 1500-1718 (2 vols., Istanbul, 1982), proves useful for our purposes. Setton has written on society in Catalan Greece in his Catalan Domination and in "Catalan Society in the Fourteenth Century," Essays in Memory of Basil Laourdas (Thessalonica, 1975), pp. 241—284. On the early years of the Catalan Company in the duchy see Jacoby, "La ' Cornpagnie catalane' et l'état catalan de Grèce: Quelques aspects de leur histoire," Journal des Savants (1966), pp. 78—103. Slavery in the eastern Mediterranean is treated in the recent work by Charles Verlinden, L'Esclavage dans l'Europe médiévale, II (Ghent, 1977), which supersedes all his previous studies on the subject; see also Elizabeth A. Zachariadou, Trade and Crusade: Venetian Crete and the Emirates of Menteshe and Aydin (1300-1415) (Venice, 1983). Various aspects of social, economic, and religious antagonism or accommodation between the Latins and the Greeks have been treated in numerous publications cited above and also recently in the following studies: Topping, "Viticulture in Venetian Crete (XIIIth C.)," Fourth International Cretological Congress (1976), Acta, II (Athens, 1981), 509—520; idem, "Co-existence of Greeks and Latins in Frankish Morea and Venetian Crete," republished in his Studies on Latin Greece. Thiriet, "La Symbiose dans les états latins formés sur les territoires de la Romania byzantine (1202 a 1261); phénomènes religieux," was, like the previous one, a paper for the XVe Congrès international d'études byzantines, Rapports et co-rapports, I, sect. 3 (Athens, 1976); see also idem, "Eglises, fidèles et clergés en Crete vénitienne (de Ia conquête 1204/1211 au XVe siècle)," in Fourth International Cretological Congress, Acta, II, 484—500; in addition, Fedalto, La Chiesa latina in Oriente, 1(2nd rev. ed.; Verona, 1981), and III (mentioned above); Setton, The Papacy (cited above). See also Laiou, "Quelques observations sur l'économie et la société de Crete vénitienne (ca. 1270—ca. 1305)," in Bisanzio e l'Italia: Raccolta di studi in memoria di Agostino Pert usi (Milan, 1982), pp. 177—198, and her "Observations on the Results of the Fourth Crusade: Greeks and Latins in Port and Market," Medievalia et humanistica, n.s., XII (1984),
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