Chapter I: Preface

This volume consists of articles and monographs upon the Latin Orient and Balkan history, published between 1897 and the present year. For kind permission to reprint them in collected form I am indebted to the editors and proprietors of _The Quarterly Review_, _The English Historical Review_, _The Journal of Hellenic Studies_, _Die Byzantinische Zeitschrift_, _The Westminster Review_, _The Gentleman’s Magazine_, and _The Journal of the British and American Archæological Society of Rome_. All the articles have been revised and brought up to date by the light of recent research in a field of history which is no longer neglected in either the Near East or Western Europe.

W. M.

36, VIA PALESTRO, ROME.

_March, 1921._

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE ROMANS IN GREECE 1

II. BYZANTINE GREECE 29

III. FRANKISH AND VENETIAN GREECE 57

1. THE FRANKISH CONQUEST OF GREECE 57

2. FRANKISH SOCIETY IN GREECE 70

3. THE PRINCES OF THE PELOPONNESE 85

APPENDIX: THE NAME OF NAVARINO 107

4. THE DUKES OF ATHENS 110

APPENDIX: THE FRANKISH INSCRIPTION AT KARDITZA 132

5. FLORENTINE ATHENS 135

APPENDIX:

NOTES ON ATHENS UNDER THE FRANKS 155

THE TURKISH CAPTURE OF ATHENS 160

6. THE DUCHY OF NAXOS 161

APPENDIX: THE MAD DUKE OF NAXOS 175

7. CRETE UNDER THE VENETIANS (1204-1669) 177

8. THE IONIAN ISLANDS UNDER VENETIAN RULE 199

9. MONEMVASIA 231

10. THE MARQUISATE OF BOUDONITZA (1204-1414) 245

11. ITHAKE UNDER THE FRANKS 261

12. THE LAST VENETIAN ISLANDS IN THE ÆGEAN 265

13. SALONIKA 268

IV. THE GENOESE COLONIES IN GREECE 283

1. THE ZACCARIA OF PHOCÆA AND CHIOS (1275-1329) 283

2. THE GENOESE IN CHIOS (1346-1566) 298

3. THE GATTILUSJ OF LESBOS (1355-1462) 313

V. TURKISH GREECE (1460-1684) 355

VI. THE VENETIAN REVIVAL IN GREECE (1684-1718) 403

VII. MISCELLANEA FROM THE NEAR EAST 429

1. VALONA 429

2. THE MEDIÆVAL SERBIAN EMPIRE 441

APPENDIX: THE FOUNDER OF MONTENEGRO 458

3. BOSNIA BEFORE THE TURKISH CONQUEST 460

4. BALKAN EXILES IN ROME 497

5. THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM (1099-1291) 515

6. A BYZANTINE BLUE STOCKING: ANNA COMNENA 533

ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATE FIGS. TO FACE PAGE

I. 1 & 2. THE CHURCH OF ST GEORGE AT KARDITZA 134

II. 1. MONEMVASIA FROM THE LAND 234

2. MONEMVASIA. ENTRANCE TO KASTRO 234

III. 1. MONEMVASIA. Παναγία Μυρτιδιώτισσα 235

2. MONEMVASIA. Ἁγία Σοφία 235

IV. MONEMVASIA. KASTRO 240

V. 1. MONEMVASIA. TOWN WALLS AND GATE 241

2. MONEMVASIA. MODERN TOWN AT BASE OF CLIFF 241

VI. 1. BOUDONITZA. THE CASTLE FROM THE WEST 246

2. BOUDONITZA. THE CASTLE FROM THE EAST 246

VII. 1. BOUDONITZA. THE KEEP AND THE HELLENIC GATEWAY 247

2. BOUDONITZA. THE HELLENIC GATEWAY 247

ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

Fig. 1. INSCRIPTION ON THE CHURCH AT KARDITZA 133

” 2. ARMS ON WELL-HEAD IN THE CASTLE AT MONEMVASIA 242

MAP

THE NEAR EAST IN 1350 BETWEEN PAGES 282 AND 283