The Fourth Crusade - first US edition
by Jonathan Phillips
In 1202, zealous western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate
Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy
Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on
Constantinople, wreaking devastation so terrible and inflicting scars so deep
that as recently as 2001 Pope John Paul II offered an apology to the Greek
Orthodox Church.
As Phillips points out, the destruction was so embedded in the collective memory
of Christianity that in 2001 Pope John Paul II apologized to Greek Orthodox
Christians. Phillips's book provides a first-rate narrative of this significant
episode in medieval history.
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