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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4855501, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks, Magnus Maximus, Orielensis and Medoraman, for a terrific thread!&nbsp; ...Yep, as a &#039;popular&#039; historian (of the highest calibre), Norwich was the rightful successor of Thomas B. Costain (kings of England).&nbsp; Norwich also did a good one on the Normans in Sicily.</p><p>...Um, here&#039;s my holed one of Pietro Ziani (1205-1229), the successor of Dandolo, who initiated the type.&nbsp; ...From the proceeds of the Fourth Crusade.&nbsp; The Byzantine influence is All Over this.&nbsp; The Venetians&#039; ongoing relationship with Byzantium was indeed as fraught as it gets.&nbsp; From the initial sack of Constantinople, the Venetians netted the relics of St. Mark, who summarily became the patron saint of the city.&nbsp; (That&#039;s him on the right: &#039;.S. M. VENETI&#039;.)&nbsp; &#039;Appropriated,&#039; along with the quasi-ikonic coin motifs, in the service of a different communion.&nbsp; Then, when the last Latin emperor, Baldwin II, had to dispose of the rest of Constantinople&#039;s relics, he initialy pawned them to Venice.&nbsp; ...Louis IX eventually bought them, including the Crown of Thorns, for which he built the Sainte-Chappelle.[ATTACH=full]1172475[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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