Read The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

Jonathan Phillips

4.9/5 (15038 ratings)

Description:In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But after a dramatic series of events, the crusaders turned their weapons against the Christian city of Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire and the greatest metropolis in the known world. The crusaders spared no one in their savagery: they murdered old and young, they raped women and girls - even nuns - in their frenzy. They also desecrated churches and plundered treasuries, and much of the city was put to the torch. Some contemporaries were delighted: God had approved this punishment of the effeminate, treacherous Greeks; others expressed shock and disgust at this perversion of the crusading ideal. History has judged this as the crusade that went wrong and even today the violence and brutality of the western knights provokes deep ill-feeling towards the Catholic Church.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. To get started finding The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0143035908

Description: In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But after a dramatic series of events, the crusaders turned their weapons against the Christian city of Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire and the greatest metropolis in the known world. The crusaders spared no one in their savagery: they murdered old and young, they raped women and girls - even nuns - in their frenzy. They also desecrated churches and plundered treasuries, and much of the city was put to the torch. Some contemporaries were delighted: God had approved this punishment of the effeminate, treacherous Greeks; others expressed shock and disgust at this perversion of the crusading ideal. History has judged this as the crusade that went wrong and even today the violence and brutality of the western knights provokes deep ill-feeling towards the Catholic Church.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. To get started finding The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

More Books

Life & The Legend Of The Sultan Saladin

Life & The Legend Of The Sultan Saladin

Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades

Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades

The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

The Crusades 1095-1197

The Crusades 1095-1197

The Crusades, 1095-1204 (Seminar Studies)

The Crusades, 1095-1204 (Seminar Studies)

No Rest for the Dead

No Rest for the Dead

The First Crusade: Origins and Impact

The First Crusade: Origins and Impact

Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives