Further reading

Tetrarchs and re-used materials

  • Ludovico Rebaudo, “Il gruppo dei tetrarchi: una lettura del reimpiego”, in Giuseppe Cuscito (ed.), Riuso di monumenti e reimpiego di materiali antichi in età postclassica: il caso della Venetia, Trieste, Editreg, 2012, p. 147-158.
  • Spolia | for a full bibliography and current research on the topic of decorative sculpture reused in new monuments, see DiSpLay (Digital Spolia Layering), the ongoing scientific project at the university of Venice | wikipedia
  • Tetrarchy | online
  • Monument of the Tetrarchs | online

Fourth Crusade (primary sources)

  • de Villehardouin, Geoffrey. “Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople” | online
  • Robert of Clari. “The Conquest of Constantinople” | online

Fourth Crusade (secondary sources)

  • “The Fourth Crusade and the Latin empire of Constantinople”, 2006 | Encyclopædia Britannica
  • The fourth Crusade | Wikipedia
  • The Sack of Constantinople | Wikipedia
  • Angold, Michael, “The road to 1204, the Byzantine background to the Fourth Crusade”, Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 25/3, 1999, pp. 257–278.
  • Bartlett, W. B., An Ungodly War: The Sack of Constantinople and the Fourth Crusade. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2000.
  • Harris, Jonathan, Byzantium and the Crusades, Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2014.
  • Kazhdan, Alexander “Latins and Franks in Byzantium”, in Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (eds.), The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2001, pp. 83–100.
  • Kolbaba, Tia M. “Byzantine Perceptions of Latin Religious ‘Errors’: Themes and Changes from 850 to 1350”, in Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh (eds.), The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2001, pp. 117–143.
  • Hodgson, Natasha, “Honour, Shame and the Fourth Crusade”, Journal of Medieval History, 39/2, 2013, pp. 220-239.
  • Lester, Anne E., “What remains_ women, relics and remembrance in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade”, Journal of Medieval History, 40/3, 2014, pp. 311-328.
  • Madden, Thomas F., Enrico Dandolo and the Rise of Venice, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
  • Madden, Thomas F., and Donald E. Queller, The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
  • Noble, Peter, “The importance of Old French chronicles as historical sources of the Fourth Crusade and the early Latin Empire of Constantinople”, Journal of Medieval History 27, 2001, pp. 399–416.

The chain in Venice and in Constantinople

  • Venice on foot | online
  • Georgios Anapniotis, The truth about the great chain of the golden horn | ResearchGate
  • Takeno, J., Takeno, Y., “The Mystery of the Defense Chain Mechanism of Constantinople”, in Koetsier, T., Ceccarelli, M. (eds.) Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. 2012 | doi
  • Navigation barriers | wikipedia
  • Golden Horn Chain | atlasobscura  | ancient-origins 

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Dr Marcella De Paoli (curator of Venice’s museum of archaeology) and Dr Myriam Pilutti Namer (Ca Foscari University of Venice and member of the DiSpLay research project) for a wonderful personal guided tour of the collections of the museum of archaeology in Venice and a very learned conversation on the ancient Byzantine spolia found in Venice.