The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462In The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462, Christopher Wright offers a window into the culturally and politically diverse late medieval Aegean. The overlapping influences of the contrasting networks of power at work in the region are explored through the history of one of many small and distinctive political units that flourished in this fragmented environment, the lordships of the Gattilusio family, centred on Lesbos. Though Genoese in origin, they owed their position to Byzantine authority. Though active in crusading, they cultivated congenial relations with the Ottomans. Though Catholic, they afforded exceptional freedom to the Orthodox Church. Their regime is shown to represent both a unique fusion of influences and a revealing microcosm of its times. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One Political Context and Development | 29 |
Sovereignty and Legitimacy | 77 |
Migration and Solidarity | 129 |
Family and Enterprise | 187 |
Communities and Government | 245 |
Common Causes and Compromises | 319 |
Security and Submission | 359 |
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9 Σεπτεμβρίου Actorum Aegean Ainos alum Anatolia Andreas Mazarakis Andronikos Asdracha attack attested authority Bayezid Byzantine Byzantium Candia Catalan century Chalkokondyles Chios Christian Ciriaco Constantinople Crete crusading Demetrios Demetrios Kydones documents Domenico Doria Dorino Doukas emperor empire evidence fleet forces Francesco galleys Gattilusio lords Gattilusio lordships Gattilusio rule Gattilusio territories Genoa Genoese Genoese commune Genovesi Geo Pistarino Giorgio Giovanni Greek Gregoras Hospitaller idem Imbros imperial involved island Jacopo John VII Kallone Kantakouzenos Kritovoulos Kydones Latin Lemnos Lesbos lord of Ainos lord of Mytilene lordship of Mytilene Luxuro and Pinelli-Gentile Mahona Manuel Manuel II Palaeologus Maroneia Mazarakis Mediterranean Mehmed Mehmed II Methymna Michel Balard military Niccolò notarial Old Phokaia Orthodox Ottoman Palaiologoi Palamede Papacy papal Paris Pera pirates political port Roccatagliata Rome rulers Samothrake Setton ships siècle suggests Tenedos Thasos Thrace tion trade Turkish Turks Venetian Venice Zaccaria Λέσβου Μυτιλήνη Σεπτεμβρίου 1994