The Late Byzantine Peloponnese (1204-1461) was a space of intense political and social ferment.
The forced coexistence within its narrow geographical boundaries of two opposing state formations (the Latin Principality of Achaea and the Byzantine Despotate of Mystra) and simultaneously several ethnic groups of diverse origins (Greeks, Latins, Albanians, Slavs, Jews, Roma, and Turks) led to repeated tensions and military conflicts.
At the same time, however, it inevitably contributed to the exchange of fertile cultural stimuli, which in the long term decisively shaped the unique character of the inhabitants of the Turkish-occupied Morea.
In the five studies of this book, certain significant aspects of the events that defined the evolution of the Peloponnese during the last two centuries of the Byzantine Empire are examined by one of the most specialized researchers of the Late Byzantine Period in our country.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
