Sacred Plunder

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Contexts

1. Constantinople’s Relics, 1204–1261

2. Pope Innocent III and Sacrilege, 1204–1215

Part II: Texts

3. The Translatio Narratives of the Fourth Crusade

4. Interpretations

Part III: Outcomes

5. Translatio and Venice Before and After 1204

6. Translatio and the Myth of Venice

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“Meticulously researched, well written, and carefully argued.”

—Holger A. Klein, American Historical Review