There it survives numerous abuses, including the Fourth Crusade in 1204, during which Constantinople is sacked and many of its books burned. Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovers the ...

By the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204), Christian armies even attacked fellow Christians, sacking Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Orthodox Church. This division between Catholic and ...

The Church has explicitly apologized for some of the worst abuses committed in the name of the Crusades, like the pogroms and the sack of Constantinople, and Pope John Paul II called more ...

As a tourist, the only reasonable response to Venice’s all-consuming beauty is to gasp in admiration after rounding every corner. As an economist, another response occurs: once upon a time, this ...

The couple had two daughters. In 1147, Eleanor accompanied her husband on the Second Crusade, travelling to Constantinople and Jerusalem. The Crusade was a failure and relations between Eleanor ...

A 19th century engraving of a scene in Claremont, France shows Pope Urban II standing behind the priest Peter the Hermit who is encouraging men to go on a Crusade In the medieval period ...

At first C. Diehl describes the wealth of Constantinople which met the eyes of the first crusaders. “The Crusader-pilgrims, writing their impressions in their naïve language, could not sufficiently ...