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Viewing the city

Conquerors and Defenders: 1204

Sources

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)

Discussion

H. Hunger, Byzantinisches Geisteswelt (Baden-Baden 1958) 198-201.

A. Cutler, 'The De Signis of Nicetas Choniates: a reappraisal', AJA 72 (1968), 1113-8.

Crusaders

Geoffroi de Villehardouin and Gérard de Joinville

La conquete de Constantinople, texte original, accompagned'une traduction par M. Natalis de Wailly. (Paris : Firmin-Didot, 1872)

La conquête de Constantinople, editée et traduite par Edmond Faral. (Paris : Societe d'Edition "Les Belles Lettres", 1938-1939),

Geoffrey de Villehardouin and Gerard de Joinville, Chronicles of the Crusades, translated M. E. R. Shaw (Penguin Classics, 1963)

Robert de Clari and excerpts

La conquête de Constantinople , éditée par Philippe Lauer. (Paris : E. Champion, 1924. Les Classiques francais du moyen age ; [40]) From ms. 487 in the Royal Library of Copenhagen

The Conquest of Constantinople by Robert Of Clari, trans. Edgar Holmes McNeal (Columbus, Ohio, 1936/Toronto 1997)

The Capture of Constantinople: Translation of the Hystoria Constantinopolitana of Gunther of Pairis, by A.J. Andrea (Philadelphia, 1997)

The Fourth Crusade

·  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.

·  R. L. Wolff, Footnote to an incident of the Latin occupation of Constantinople : the Church and the icon of the Hodegetria (1948)

A history of the Crusades, at Wisconsin

·  T. F. Madden, 'The fires of the fourth Crusade in Constantinople, 1203-1204: a damage assessment', BZ 84-84 (1991-92), 72-93.

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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