Traces the holy war of 1202 during which zealous Crusaders, determined to liberate Jerusalem from Islam, rerouted to Constantinople, where over the course of two years they committed mass rape, murder, and destruction.

Product Description: The Fourth Crusade was perhaps the darkest hour of the Catholic Church and of religion in the West. In 1204 thousands of men, dispatched by Pope Innocent IV to recover the Holy Places in Palestine, were diverted by the Venetians to the territory of the Christian Byzantine empire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In His Own Words, Without Partisan Bias or Self-glorification, Robert of Clari recorded his observations of the Fourth Crusade as an eyewitness and participant caught up by events, rather than making them. Recording the events of the journey, as well as the sights, miracles, and people that he saw, the account is an important historical and literary, as well as human document...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Eye-witness accounts of the Crusades translated from the French. Villehardouin wrote early in the thirteenth century and Joinville about a century later. Both chronicles are monuments to French language and prose at an early stage of development.

Product Description: Oxford University Press. dw, 1980, 184pp