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Article: The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2001
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The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople. Second Edition. By Donald E. Queller and Thomas F. Madden. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 357. $19.95.)
The event is well known and its mythology generally accepted. To many, the Fourth Crusade is the classic case of how perverted the crusades were. Not only was this crusade not directed towards Jerusalem, it was not even directed against the Muslims. And in the end, the crusaders gained land, not religious glory. Who was responsible? Pope Innocent III, who called for it? Boniface of Montferrat, who ostensibly led it? Doge Dandalo of Venice, who transported it? Or were some of the ...