Title: The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople
First published: 2004
Description: Using remarkable letters, chronicles, and speeches of various witnesses to the violent destruction of Constantinople by Christian crusaders in 1202, Phillips traces the way any region steeped in religious fanaticism might succumb to holy war.
Subjects: Crusades, Nonfiction, History, Crusades, fourth, 1202-1204, Istanbul (turkey), history
Places: Istanbul (Turkey)
Time periods: Fourth, 1202-1204, Siege, 1203-1204