Ebook: Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. It argues that the experience colonization splintered the Greek community, which could not agree how best to respond to the Latin other.

The first monograph to apply the lessons and methods of postcolonial thought to the Latin conquest of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade, a pivotal moment in the history of Byzantium and of the relations between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.