This revised and expanded edition of The Fourth Crusade gives fresh emphasis to the events in Byzantium and the Byzantine response to the actions of the Crusaders.
17—227 Gregory VIII, Audita tremendi, translated in L. Riley-Smith & J. S. C. Riley-Smith, The Crusades: Idea and Reality, 1095—1274, London, 1981, 63—7 Guibert of Nogent, The Deeds of God through the Franks: Gesta Dei per Francos, tr.
This book examines the combined action and sacking of the city of Zara, which saw the Crusaders temporarily excommunicated by the Pope.
4 See Ryan, “Richard I and the Fourth Crusade,” in this volume; Jonathan RileySmith, Breve storia delle crociate (Milan, 1994), p. 171. Moreover, the Pope was not at all loath to propose a collaboration to Alexius III, the Byzantine ...
Instead, during the Fourth Crusade, tensions between the Latin Christians of Western Europe and the Greek Christians of Constantinople came to a head after a century and three previous Crusades.
The Fall of Constantinople: Being the Story of the Fourth Crusade by Edwin Pears, first published in 1885, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great...
The Remaking of the Medieval World, 1204 allows students to understand and experience one of the greatest medieval atrocities, the sack of the Constantinople by a crusader army, and the subsequent reshaping of the Byzantine Empire.
It is no part of my purpose to trace the history of its decline, further than to show what were the immediate causes which led to its weakness in 1203, when the Fourth Crusade effected what is generally known as the Latin Conquest of ...
This volume presents English translations of seven major bodies of Latin sources for the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204).
The Fourth Crusade (1202-4) was proclaimed by Innocent IV with the aim of recovering the Holy Places in Palestine. However, the Crusade was financed by the Venetians and at once...
The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism.