Book Reviews 285 ideas. Also, quotes from primary sources are usually provided in English translation, save for scattered keywords in their original language, when full quotes are preferable, even if in footnotes (as it is done nearer the end of the study). This being said, the author's general thesis is aptly argued, and I personally cannot refute it since it echoes (in spirit) the PhD dissertation I defended in 2006 at Université Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and which I later published in

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... : L'Autre à l'époque des croisades: les Byzantins vus par les chroniqueurs du monde latin . While Neocleous's study is distinct, original, and in all ways refreshing in its scope and ambition, neither my PhD thesis nor my book nor my published articles 1 on the topic are cited or referenced in the bibliographyand yet references to other French studies are provided throughout the text. All things considered, the study cannot claim in its description to be "the first to deal exclusively with Latin perceptions of and attitudes toward the Greeks in terms of religion, [and] to revisit and challenge the view that the so-called schism between the Latin and Greek Churches led to the isolation of the Byzantine Empire by the Latin states and eventually to the events of 1204." Not only has the religious (and cultural) perception of Greeks by Latins been addressed before by myself and others, but the impact of the East-West Schism (1054) has already been downplayed by Michel Kaplan, among others, in a number of studies. Despite these points of information, Savvas Neocleous's study does produce a much-needed reassessment of Greco-Latin relations in the long twelfth century, and his book certainly promises to become the reference on the topic, especially for English-speaking academia. NOTE