The Fourth Crusade
The Conquest of Constantinople
2nd Edition
Published on 2. September 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-8122-1713-1 (ISBN)
Description
On August 15, 1199, Pope Innocent III called for a renewed effort to deliver Jerusalem from the Infidel, but the Fourth Crusade had a very different outcome from the one he preached. Proceeding no further than Constantinople, the Crusaders sacked the capital of eastern Christendom and installed a Latin ruler on the throne of Byzantium. This revised and expanded edition of The Fourth Crusade gives fresh emphasis to events in Byzantium and the Byzantine response to the actions of the Crusaders. Included in this edition is a chapter on the sack of Constantinople and the election of its Latin emperor.
A History Book Club selection.
A History Book Club selection.
Reviews / Votes
"A masterful, up-to-date revision, which has taken a classic to an even higher level of historical inquiry and subtlety."-James Ross Sweeney, Pennsylvania State University"As a work of scholarship the new edition is a considerable achievement since it has taken a classic and made it even better."-Nottingham Medieval Studies
"The narrative is crisp; the vignettes of individuals, illuminating; and the overall grasp of action, masterful, whether describing the first terrifying assault of the Venetian ships or analyzing the complex power structure in the Byzantine court."-Grover A. Zinn, Jr., Church History, in a review of the first edition
"Strongly argued and well-documented."-The Historian
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Series
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-1713-1 (9780812217131)
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Previous edition
Queller
Fourth Crusade Pb
Book
07/1978
University of Pennsylvania Press
€11.79
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Persons
Donald E. Queller was Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; among his other books are The Office of the Ambassador in the Middle Ages and The Venetian Patriciate: Reality Versus Myth. Thomas F. Madden is Associate Professor of History at St. Louis University.