Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople

"Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople" by Geoffrey of Villehardouin is a historical chronicle written in the early 13th century. As an eyewitness to the infamous sack of Constantinople in 1204, the knight-crusader delivers the oldest surviving French prose history. Written in epic style, Villehardouin narrates five years of crusading through battles, negotiations, and controversial sieges of Christian cities, blending military detail with religious justification while shaping events according to his own perspective. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Villehardouin, Geoffroi de, 1150-1213?
Title Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_la_Conqu%C3%AAte_de_Constantinople
Credits Norm Wolcott
Reading Level Reading ease score: 67.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere
Subject Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527
Subject Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204
Subject Istanbul (Turkey) -- History
Subject Latin Empire, 1204-1261
Subject Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508
Category Text
EBook-No. 6032
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Most Recently Updated Sep 9, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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