Byzantium and Venice after the First Crusade: “Ratification” of imperial privileges through “pious” thefts of the relics (1123-1126)
Abstract
The “Translatio mirifici martyris Isidori a Chio insula in civitatem venetam” is the testimony of an eyewitness of the Venetian campaign of the period 1122-1124, regarding the “pious” theft of the relic of St. Isidore that took place during the Venetian return trip from the Holy Land. The Saints, who from ports-stations on the commercial roads to the East, “accepted” to be transported to Venice during the period 1123-1126, ratified with their grace the commercial privileges of the Venetians that John II Komnenos refused to ratify.
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ΠΑΝΑΓΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ (Angeliki PANAGOPOULOU ) Α. (2025). Byzantium and Venice after the First Crusade: “Ratification” of imperial privileges through “pious” thefts of the relics (1123-1126). Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 44, 415–438. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.40852
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