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

Name: Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople
Author: Geoffroi de Villehardouin

by Geoffroi de Villehardouin

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Project Gutenberg

Release date

2004-07-01

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Byzantine Empire -- History -- To 527 Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204 Istanbul (Turkey) -- History Latin Empire, 1204-1261 Venice (Italy) -- History -- 697-1508

About the author

Geoffroi de Villehardouin

1150–1212

A knight and marshal of Champagne, he left one of the most vivid firsthand accounts of the Fourth Crusade. His chronicle stands out for its direct, practical voice and for the rare view it gives into medieval politics and warfare.

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