Introduction 1
1. Robert de Clari 13
2. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana 35
3. Innocent's Ambivalence 49
4. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation 73
5. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) 89
6. The Chronicle of Morea 103
Conclusion 123
Acknowledgments 131
Notes 133
Index 177

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek community over how best to respond to the Latin other while illuminating the mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East. The experience of colonial subjugation opened permanent fissures within the Orthodox community, which struggled to develop a consistent response to aggressive demands for submission to the Roman Church.

George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He is also a Co-founding Director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He serves as a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and as President of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America. He is the author of five monographs and dozens of scholarly articles of the history of Christianity in the premodern period.