In 1204 the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked the great city of Constantinople. Through a comprehensive rereading of better and lesser-known sources this book offers an alternative perspective on this event, arguing that the Latin rulers did not abolish, but very consciously wan…
In 1204 the army of the Fourth Crusade sacked the great city of Constantinople. In earlier historiography the view prevailed that these Western barons and knights temporarily destroyed the Byzantine state and replaced it with a series of feudal states of their own making. Throug…
The Companion to Latin Greece offers an overview of the history of the Latin states that were founded on former lands of the Byzantine Empire following the conquest of Byzantium by the armies of the Fourth Crusade.
