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In the early 1200s, crusaders from Western Europe set out to capture Jerusalem. They didn’t get anywhere near it. What they ended up doing was sacking and looting Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Christian world. How and why did the mission get diverted, and how did a holy war proclaimed by the Pope turn into what was essentially the largest robbery in history up until that time? The story is extremely complicated, but this video will attempt to unpack the many deep layers of the tragic Fourth Crusade.
Sources for this video include:
Angeliki E. Laiou & Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, Eds., The Crusades From the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2001; Edgar H. McNeal, “Fulk of Neuilly and the Tournament of Ecry,” Speculum, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Apr. 1953), 371-75;
Geoffrey de Villehardouin & Jean Sire de Joinville, Memoirs of the Crusades (Frank T. Marzials, Trans., New York: Dutton & Co., 1958), https://archive.org/details/bwb_O8-BPE-920/page/n5/mode/2up; Niketas Choniates, O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas Choniates (Harry J. Magoulias, Trans., Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984), https://archive.org/details/ocityofbyzantium0000chon/page/n5/mode/2up; Robert of Clari’s Account of the Fourth Crusade, De Re Militari (Society for Medieval Military History), January 20, 2014, https://deremilitari.org/2014/01/robert-of-claris-account-of-the-fourth-crusade/; Jonathan Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades (London: Hambledon and London, 2003); Jonathan Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (New York: Penguin Books, 2004); Nigel G. Wilson, “The Libraries of the Byzantine World,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1967), 53-80; Alexander P. Kazhdan, Ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (3 Vols), (Oxford University Press, 1991).
Special thanks to: John Marcucci, Ethem Onur Bilgiç, Rob Drokker, my 7th grade classes “Phoenixes” and “Dragons.”
Geoffrey of Villehardouin’s memoirs (HTML version): https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6032/pg6032-images.html
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Chapters:
00:00-19:42: Selling the Dream
19:42-33:45: The Crusading Spirit
33:45-52:45: Byzantium
52:45-1:01:25: Venice
1:01:25-1:16:39: The First Deal
1:16:39-1:26:11: The Second Deal
1:26:11-1:33:31: The Diversion
1:33:31-1:47:16: The First Battle
1:47:16-2:01:14: Winter of Discontent
2:01:14-2:09:30: The Final Battle
2:09:30-2:18:02: The Pillage
2:18:02-2:35:45: The Aftermath
2:35:45-2:44:09: Conclusion sY05MMZ_hiM |