The Capture of Constantinople : : The "Hystoria Constantinopolitana" of Gunther of Pairis / / Alfred J. Andrea.
The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary...
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