ABSTRACT
The most interesting and most elusive question of the period of Frankish rule in the Aegean area is the affect which it had upon Greek society and the extent to which a hybrid Franco-Greek culture may be said to have emerged. The diverse groups of Frankish settlers were too small and their control too brief and too limited geographically for anything other than a curdling, rather than a true intermingling, to take place – what Professor Jacoby has termed ‘an encounter between two societies’ rather than an acculturation. 1
