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The Beginning of the Palaiologian “Reconquista” in the Peloponnese: Features of Political Relations between the Romans and Latins under the Despot Theodore I (1383—1407)
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The Beginning of the Palaiologian “Reconquista” in the Peloponnese: Features of Political Relations between the Romans and Latins under the Despot Theodore I (1383—1407)
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S207987840031407-6-1
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10.18254/S207987840031407-6
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Authors
Tatiana Belorussova 
Affiliation: Institute of World History RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
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Volume 15 Issue 6 (140)
Abstract

The article examines the features of political interaction between the Romans and Latins in the Peloponnese in the last two decades of the 14th — early 15th centuries, when Theodore I Palaiologos ruled the Despotate of Morea. The author of the article analyzes the relations of the Romans with their Latin neighbors through the prism of the expansionist policy that the despot adhered to from the first years of his reign. Based on data from Byzantine (Manuel II, Laonikos Chalkokondyles, George Sphrantzes) and Latin (Niccolò da Martoni) narrative sources and Latin (mainly Venetian) documentary material, the article gradually examines the Greeek-Latin conflicts and contacts, the motives of each side, the reasons and consequences of their political decisions. The author concludes that throughout the entire reviewed period, an imbalance prevailed in Greco-Latin relations, which was not overcome even against the backdrop of regular incursions by Ottoman troops into the peninsula and their devastating consequences. The reason for this, according to the author, was the emergence of new political actors (the Navarre Company) on the peninsula at the beginning of the reviewed period and the subsequent dispersal of power in Achaia. The Byzantine “Reconquista” which remained the main line of the despot’s policy, only complicated Greco-Latin relations, but did not become the root cause of their deterioration. To a greater extent, the policy of the Byzantines worried the Venetian Republic, while the hostile relations between the despot and the Navarrese were mostly influenced by their mutual rejection of the neighborhood with the dangerous and unpredictable strangers that they were for each other. As a result, the policy of compromise and situational Greek-Latin cooperation that had developed since the first half of the 14th century finally gave way to political hostility and the desire to oust the enemy from the occupied territories.

Keywords
Late Byzantium, Palaiologos, Peloponnese, Despotate, Principality of Achaea, Venetian Republic, Navarrese Company, Greek-Latin interaction
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The study is sponsored by the Russian Science Foundation, project № 22-18-00481 “Intercultural communications in the Christian Mediterranean in the context of global challenges of the XIV—XV centuries: forms, dynamics, results”.
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19.03.2024
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31.07.2024
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