Sacred Plunder. David M. Perry

      SACRED PLUNDER

      VENICE

       AND THE

       AFTERMATH

       OF THE

       FOURTH

       CRUSADE

      DAVID M. PERRY

      THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

      UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Perry, David M., 1973–

      Sacred plunder : Venice and the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade / David M. Perry.

      pages cm

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Summary: “Explores the emergence of a body of texts about relics transported from Constantinople to the West as a after the Fourth Crusade, and the role of these texts in the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century”— Provided by publisher.

      ISBN 978-0-271-06507-6 (cloth : alk. paper)

      1. Venice (Italy)—History—697–1508.

      2. Group identity—Italy—Venice—History—To 1500.

      3. Crusades—Fourth, 1202–1204—Historiography.

      4. Crusades—Fourth, 1202–1204—Sources.

      5. Crusades in literature.

      6. Relics in literature.

      I. Title.

      DG677.6.P47 2015

      945’.304—dc23

      2014033309

      Copyright © 2015 The Pennsylvania State University

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      Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press,

      University Park, PA 16802-1003

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      It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992.

      This book is printed on paper that contains 30% post-consumer waste.

      FOR Lewis and Elisabeth Israels Perry

      CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: CONTEXTS

1

Constantinople’s Relics, 1204–1261

2

Pope Innocent III and Sacrilege, 1204–1215

       PART II: TEXTS

       3

       The Translatio Narratives of the Fourth Crusade

       4

       Interpretations

       PART III: OUTCOMES

       5

       Translatio and Venice Before and After 1204

       6

       Translatio and the Myth of Venice

       Epilogue

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

ILLUSTRATIONS

      FIGURES

       1 Mosaic of St. Peter, St. Mark, and St. Hermagoras, San Marco

       2 Marble relief of St. Demetrios, San Marco

       3 Marble relief of St. George, San Marco

       4 Marble relief of Heracles and the Erymanthian boar, San Marco

       5 Marble relief of Heracles and the Lernaean Hydra, San Marco

       6 Marble relief of relics from the treasury of San Marco, corridor to Palazzo Ducale

      MAPS

       1 The Fourth Crusade (1202–4)

       2 Europe as of 1270 with sites of Fourth Crusade translatio narrative production

       3 The world of the Venetian empire (1204–1797)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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