The Myth of the White Monks' “Mission to the Orthodox”: Innocent III, the Cistercians, and the Greeks

In the early thirteenth century, numerous Cistercian monasteries were founded in the former Byzantine territories conquered in the context of the Fourth Crusade. According to the standard narrative, put forth in the 1970s, Pope Innocent III sent the Cistercians on a “mission to the Orthodox,” but th...

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Main Author: Schabel, Chris (Author)
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2015
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Year: 2015, Volume: 70, Pages: 237-261
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