Daily Medieval

Robert de Clari, a knight from Picardy, was a member of the Fourth Crusade, and wrote an account [ link ] of what he saw. Although his knowl...

Yesterday we looked at Geoffrey de Villehardouin's account of the Fourth Crusade and how he managed to obscure any culpability of his i...

Remember Geoffrey de Villehardouin ? He was one of the leaders of the Fourth Crusade who negotiated with Venice to get the Crusaders across ...

We saw yesterday that hostility between Byzantines and the Fourth Crusade came to a head when the new(est) emperor, Alexios V, ejected all ...

We saw yesterday that very early in 1204 Isaac and Alexios were holed up in the Palace of Blachernae against the upset citizenry, who held ...

(It would be best to ready yesterday's post to understand where we are.) So the Fourth Crusade was now in Constantinople, waiting to ge...

After attacking Zara at the request of the Doge of Venice, Enrico Dandolo , the members of the Fourth Crusade headed toward Constantinople....

As we saw in yesterday's post, Venice was able to coerce the members of the Fourth Crusade to winter over in Zara (a Dalmatian city now ...

I wrote about Enrico Dandolo, the Doge of Venice, 10 years ago here , but let's look at the man who "imprisoned" the Fourth Cr...

The influence of Byzantine art and culture on Italy (especially in the 13th century) was discussed yesterday , and I referred obliquely to a...