On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

The Byzantine Empire faced numerous challenges, forcing many Greeks to employ genius tactics to defend the Empire.

There it survives numerous abuses, including the Fourth Crusade in 1204, during which Constantinople is sacked and many of its books burned. Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovers the ...

The Crusaders were introduced to cotton in the ... Within half a century of the fall of Constantinople, the Europeans led on the one hand by the Spanish and the Portuguese on the other had ...

Then, less than 100 years before Nicephorus put his reforms forward, Western crusaders had sacked Constantinople. If one part of the divided Christendom accepted changes to the calendar and ...