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Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-31 - Publisher: Random House
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, t
Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Random House
In 1202 Christian armies from Europe set out on the 4th Crusade to liberate the Holy Land. Two years later they sacked Constantinople, the greatest city in the
Language: en
Pages: 420
Pages: 420
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-29 - Publisher: Penguin
In 1202, zealous Western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land
Language: en
Pages: 341
Pages: 341
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-18 - Publisher: Penn State Press
In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusa
Language: en
Pages: 382
Pages: 382
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-09-02 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
On August 15, 1199, Pope Innocent III called for a renewed effort to deliver Jerusalem from the Infidel, but the Fourth Crusade had a very different outcome fro