The Fourth Crusade

And the Sack of Constantinople

Jonathan Phillips

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English

Pimlico
01 June 2005

History; General & world history; European history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500

A major work of history and the first trade book published on the subject of the crusade of 1204, which went so catastrophically wrong.

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 and raped old and young - they desecrated churches, 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.

In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips follows the fortunes of the leading players and explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement.

By: Jonathan Phillips
Imprint: Pimlico
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9781844130801
ISBN 10: 1844130800
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 June 2005
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Defenders of the Holy Land: Relations between the Latin East and the West, 1119-1187 (1996), and The Crusades, 1095-1197 (2002). He has also written articles for BBC History, and History Today, and has published in the Independent. He has made a number of radio appearances on Radio 3 and Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and has contributed to several television programmes for Channel 4, the BBC and the History Channel USA.

Reviews for The Fourth Crusade: And the Sack of Constantinople

Enthralling...Nobody can read it without acquiring a better understanding of the Middle Ages and the medieval mind. -- Allan Massie * Literary Review * Persuasively reconstructs the imaginative world of the thirteenth century. -- John Adamson * Sunday Telegraph * By far the best book I have read on the Fourth Crusade...learned, comprehensive...well-written...exciting. -- Norman F. Cantor Stunning * Financial Times *