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TITLE: |
The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople / by Jonathan Phillips. |
ADDED TITLE: |
4th Crusade and the sack of Constantinople |
AUTHOR: |
Phillips, Jonathan. |
PUBLISHED: |
New York : Penguin Books, 2005. |
DESCRIPTION: |
xxii, 374 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm. |
NOTES: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-361) and index. |
NOTES: |
"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, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam... |
SUBJECT: |
Crusades --Fourth, 1202-1204. |
SUBJECT: |
Istanbul (Turkey)--History--Siege, 1203-1204. |
SUBJECT: |
Crusades. |
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