The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Jonathan Phillips Read Free Book Online Page A

organisation
     
    preparations
     
    amphibious assault
     
    assault on the Tower of Galata
     
    crusader fleet breaks into the Golden Horn
     
    crusaders cross the Golden Horn
     
    crusaders outside city walls
     
    crusaders fortify camp
     
    assault
     
    fires set
     
    Byzantine counter-attack
     
    Byzantine withdrawal
     
    Isaac restored to the throne
     
    fora (public squares)
     
    the Golden Gate
     
    the Great Palace
     
    Greeks reclaim
     
    the Hagia Sophia
     
    the Hippodrome
     
    living conditions
     
    massacre
     
    merchant community attacked, 1182
     
    morale, 1204
     
    the Mouchroutas
     
    and Murtzuphlus
     
    Pantepoptes, monastery of the
     
    political degeneration
     
    population
     
    preparations for defence, 1204
     
    provision for in ‘The March Pact’
     
    relations with crusaders break down
     
    relations with the West
     
    relics
     
    rival emperor emerges
     
    sacked
     
    surrender of
     
    Venetian involvement in
     
    walls
     
    water supply
     
    Constantine, Emperor
     
    Corfu
     
    courtly love
     
    Crete
     
    Crusader States
     
    crusaders
     
    achievement
     
    Alexius pays
     
    alternative travel arrangements
     
    arrival at Constantinople
     
    arrival at Zara
     
    assault Constantinople, 1204
     
    atrocities
     
    attacking Christian lands
     
    behaviour
     
    breakdown of relations with Byzantines
     
    break into Constantinople
     
    Burgundian contingent
     
    call for additional recruits
     
    capabilities
     
    chevauchée
     
    clergy justify assaults of 1204
     
    at Constantinople
     
    contractual obligations
     
    on Corfu
     
    costs
     
    decision to attack Zara
     
    demand Alexius fulfils obligations
     
    departure from Venice
     
    departure from Zara
     
    desertions
     
    dissension over the offer from Alexius
     
    division of spoils
     
    effect of decision to assist Alexius
     
    election of Latin emperor
     
    enter Constantinople
     
    envoys visit Isaac
     
    families
     
    fire ship attack on fleet
     
    first engagement at Constantinople
     
    Flemish contingent
     
    foraging party attacked
     
    fortify camp
     
    fragmentation at Zara
     
    funding
     
    German contingent
     
    Greek view of
     
    guilt
     
    informed of Isaac’s restoration
     
    justification for actions
     
    leaders accept Alexius’s offer
     
    leaders’ letter to the West
     
    leadership
     
    leadership crisis
     
    ‘The March Pact’
     
    morale
     
    motivation
     
    Murtzuphlus attack on
     
    numbers
     
    and the offer from Alexius
     
    organisation at first siege
     
    plans
     
    preparations
     
    preparations for assault, 1204
     
    psychological effects on
     
    quality of cavalry
     
    released from vows
     
    renown
     
    request help from pope
     
    response to Dandolo’s demands
     
    return home
     
    returning from Holy Land
     
    rewards
     
    sack Constantinople
     
    seek absolution for the siege of Zara
     
    sexual violence
     
    shortfall in arrivals at Venice
     
    situation, 1204
     
    and the surrender of Constantinople
     
    terms offered to Murtzuphlus
     
    training
     
    at Venice
     
    view of Greeks
     
    voyage to Constantinople
     
    voyage to Zara
     
    at Zara
     
    crusades
     
    First (1095—9)
     
    Second (1145—9)
     
    Third (1189—92)
     
    Seventh (1248—54)
     
    as act of absolution
     
    Albigensian
     
    attacking Christian lands
     
    costs
     
    in defence of Latin Empire
     
    duration of
     
    expansion of
     
    experience of combat
     
    forces
     
    German
     
    mortality rates
     
    numbering system
     
    Peoples’
     
    perception of
     
    Cumans, the
     
    Cyprus
     

 
    Dandolo, Doge Enrico
     
    and Adrianople
     
    announces terms of treaty
     
    appeal to Alexius to fulfil obligations
     
    arranges acceptance of Treaty
     
    and the attack on Egypt.
     
    Baldwin’s commendation
     
    blindness
     
    and the Byzantine counter attack
     
    character
     
    at Constantinople
     
    crusader envoys’ request for assistance
     
    death of
     
    demands payment
     
    desire to go on crusade
     
    and the election for emperor
     
    and