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Sacred Plunder
2015
Overview
In Sacred Plunder , David Perry argues that plundered
relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping
the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of
Venice's civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth
Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of
the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety,
sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced
hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics-a medieval
genre called translatio - that restated their own
versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The
recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to
exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft
from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how
these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation
and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the
city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial
conquest in the thirteenth century.
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Subject
ISBN
0271065079, 9780271065076
