Contemporary Sources for the Fourth Crusade: (Medieval Mediterranean,) [Hardcover]

A. J. Andrea (Author), B. E. Whalen (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000 | Series: Medieval Mediterranean, (Book 29)

This volume presents English translations, with introductions and notes, of Latin sources for the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204). The sources consist of 41 letters from the registers of Pope Innocent III; the three extant versions of the letter of 1203 that Count Hugh of Saint Pol dispatched to the West; "The Devastation of Constantinople (DC)"; the account of the Anonymous of Soissons; passages from the Deeds of the Bishops of Halberstadt; and the chronicle accounts of Ralph of Coggeshall and Alberic of the Trois Fontaines. Critical editions of the "DC" and the Anonymous of Soissons appear in appendices. By virtue of the different perspectives through which they viewed the crusade, these sources should deepen the reader's understanding of this complex and controversial moment in Western-Byzantine relations.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin

About the Author

Alfred J. Andrea, Ph.D. (1969) in History, Cornell University, is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Vermont. He has published extensively on the Fourth Crusade, including The Capture of Constantinople: The 'Hystoria Constantinopolitana' of Gunther of Pairis (Philadelphia, 1997) and, most recently, Encyclopedia of the Crusades (Westport, 2003). --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004117407
• ISBN-13: 978-9004117402
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 9.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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