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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670033502
ISBN-139780670033508
eBay Product ID (ePID)30544636
Product Key Features
Book TitleFourth Crusade
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMiddle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, General, Europe / General
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenreHistory
AuthorJonathan Phillips
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-042017
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal949.5/03
SynopsisIn 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. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking devastation so terrible and inflicting scars so deep that as recently as 2001 Pope John Paul II offered an apology to the Greek Orthodox Church.The crusaders spared no one: They raped and massacred thousands, plundered churches, and torched the lavish city. A prostitute danced on the altar of the ravaged Hagia Sophia. And by 1204, barbarism masquerading as piety had shattered one of the great civilizations of history. Here, on the eight hundredth anniversary of the sack, is the extraordinary story of this epic catastrophe, told for the first time outside of academia by Jonathan Phillips, a leading expert on the crusades.Knights and commoners, monastic chroniclers, courtly troubadours, survivors of the carnage, and even Pope Innocent III left vivid accounts detailing the events of those two fateful years. Using their remarkable letters, chronicles, and speeches, Phillips traces the way in which any region steeped in religious fanaticism, in this case Christian Europe, might succumb to holy war.
LC Classification NumberD164.P48 2004
