George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of four monographs, most recently The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity and Gregory the Great: Ascetic Pastor and First-Man of Rome. With Aristotle Papanikolaou, he co-founded the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He presently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies.

• Introduction 11. Robert de Clari 132. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana 353. Innocent's Ambivalence 494. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation 735. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) 896. The Chronicle of Morea 103Conclusion 123Acknowledgments 131Notes 133Index 177

George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of four monographs, most recently The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity and Gregory the Great: Ascetic Pastor and First-Man of Rome. With Aristotle Papanikolaou, he co-founded the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He presently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies.

• Introduction 11. Robert de Clari 132. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana 353. Innocent's Ambivalence 494. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation 735. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) 896. The Chronicle of Morea 103Conclusion 123Acknowledgments 131Notes 133Index 177

George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of four monographs, most recently The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity and Gregory the Great: Ascetic Pastor and First-Man of Rome. With Aristotle Papanikolaou, he co-founded the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University. He presently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies.

• Introduction 11. Robert de Clari 132. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana 353. Innocent's Ambivalence 494. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation 735. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) 896. The Chronicle of Morea 103Conclusion 123Acknowledgments 131Notes 133Index 177