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Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations (1999)

Cambridge University Press

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A standard scholarly history of Byzantine-Venetian relations across seven centuries by a leading British Byzantinist, including a documented estimate of the civilian dead in the 1204 sack of Constantinople.

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Nicol was a leading British Byzantinist and past president of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies; this is the standard modern academic account of Venetian-Byzantine relations and the source generally cited for a documented, rather than chronicle-inflated, estimate of the 1204 sack's civilian death toll.
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Nicol was a leading British Byzantinist and past president of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies; this is the standard modern academic account of Venetian-Byzantine relations and the source generally cited for a documented, rather than chronicle-inflated, estimate of the 1204 sack's civilian death toll.
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Author
Donald M. Nicol
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Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
1999
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academic monograph
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  • Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
  • Religious Events, 3 claims: 2 scholarly debate, 1 general references.

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