The Fourth Crusade left three terrible legacies: a deepening religious split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

While the first three Crusades were launched in an effort to reclaim Jerusalem from Muslims, the Fourth Crusade, begun in 1202, pitted Christians against Christians: Roman Catholics against Orthodox.

Behind the pious vows of the Fourth Crusade lay unpaid debts, political pressure, and a fateful deal with Venice that led to the brutal sack of Zara. This episode traces how financial desperation and ...

Almost one thousand years ago, Pope Urban sounded a call to Latin Christians: take up your swords and take on Jerusalem. Three more major crusades to the Holy Land followed, which culminated with the ...

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- In the face of the contemporary challenge by radical Islamists, Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism are bidding farewell to the hatred caused by the Fourth Crusade exactly ...

At Zara, a desperate crusader leadership accepted an extraordinary offer from Prince Alexius that promised money, unity, and imperial power. This moment marked the true turning point of the Fourth ...

In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free ...

Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffroi de Villehardouin libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a ...