Contemporary Sources for the Fourth CrusadeBrill Academic Publishers
Alfred J. Andrea
ISBN: 9004117407
price: $128.00 hardcover
This volume presents English translations, with introductions
and notes, of Latin sources for the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204).
The sources consist of forty-one 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 combine to deepen our understanding of
this complex and controversial moment in Western-Byzantine
relations.
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