The Tocco of the Greek Realm: : Nobility, Power and Migration in Latin Greece (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries)

This book is about the Tocco family, the most prominent kindreds in Latin Greece during the late Middle Ages. Originally from the Italian South, their five generations ruled the Greek regions of the Heptanese, Epiros and Peloponnese. By exploring the elaborate structures of their power, this monograph on the Tocco nobility, power and migration reveals an intricate nexus of dynamic personal and political relations, as well as larger socio-historical processes that transformed this family from junior nobility of the Angevin Naples into independent elite ruling a region on the crossroads between the Byzantine East and the Latin West.