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Nicetas Choniates, Annals and especially part X, De Signis
English trans. Harry J. Magoulias, O City of Byzantium (Detroit 1984)
A brief extract on the capture
O. Morisani, F. Gagliuolo, A. de Franciscis, edd. De Signis (Naples 1960)
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Geoffroi de Villehardouin and Gérard de Joinville
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The Conquest of Constantinople by Robert Of Clari, trans. Edgar Holmes McNeal (Columbus, Ohio, 1936/Toronto 1997)
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· D. E. Queller and T. F. Madden, The Fourth Crusade : the conquest of Constantinople, 1201-1204. 2nd edition (University of Pennsylvania Press; 1997). Review: REB 56 (1998) p. 329-30 by J.-C. Cheynet.
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W.B. Bartlett, An Ungodly War: The Sack of Constantinople & the Fourth Crusade. (Stroud, 2000)
Jonathan Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (London, 2005)
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