Bøger af Kenneth Meyer Setton

Catalan Domination of Athens, 1311-1388 is a historical book written by Kenneth Meyer Setton. It is part of the Mediaeval Academy of America series, specifically No. 50. The book focuses on the period when the Catalan Company, a group of mercenaries from Catalonia, dominated Athens, Greece. This period lasted from 1311 to 1388. The book provides a detailed account of the political, social, and cultural changes that occurred during this time. It also explores the impact of the Catalan Company on Athens and the surrounding areas. The book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in medieval history, the history of Greece, or the history of Catalonia. It is written in English.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Kennth M. Setton provides a brief survey of the Thirty Years' Was as part of the background to Venetian relations with the Ottoman Empire. Having lost the island of Crete to the Turks in the long war of 1645-1669, Venice renewed her warfare with the Porte in 1684, this time as the ally of Austria after the Turkish failure to take Vienna the preceding year. The Venetians now conquered the Peloponnesus (the "Morea"), and occupied Athens, with the disastrous result that the Parthenon was destroyed, a tragedy which receives much attention in this book. This volume is to some exrtent a continuation of the author's highly praised work on "The Papacy and the Levant" (also published by the American Philosophical Society), which covers in four volumes the period from the Fourth Crusade (1204) to the battle of Lepanto (1571), and goes somewhat beyond.