The Fourth Crusade

Supplemental Resources

Villehardouin, Geoffrey. The Conquest of Constantinople. The best contemporary account from the Latin side, by someone very close to the action. His account continues into 1207.

Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople. Translated by Edgar McNeal, 1969.

Nicetas Choniates was a Greek historian who included an account of the sack in his general history. There is no English translation of the complete work, but Peters Christian Society has a translation of excerpts.

Queller, Donald. The Fourth Crusade. 1978. The best modern account of the conquest.

Essay on the Fourth Crusade in Wolff, R. L.; Hazard, H. W. (ed.) / The Later Crusades, 1189-1311, volume II (1969).