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This map illustrates the rise of the Latin Empire (Imperium Romaniae), a Crusader state founded by Western European forces after the Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople in 1204. It replaced the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire) and was intended to establish Latin Christian dominance in the region. The empire was ruled by Frankish and Venetian elites, with Baldwin I of Flanders crowned...
The High Middle Ages, when everyone got high and did some really crazy things especially Frederick II Stupor Mundi and Richard the Lion-Hearted. Yes, it was the best of times, the worst of times, a time of ferment, the Renaissance of the 12th Century, Commercial Revolution, Intellectual Revolution, Papal Revolution aka the Investiture Controversy, Third Crusade, the Fourth Crusade and Byzantium, Teutonic Knights and Knights of the Sword, Poland and Lithuania, Spanish Reconquista, Hanseatic League, Italian City-States, Pope Innocent III and much much more.
Leper kings, duplicitous priests, necromancers, assassins, rocs, manticores and the six heads of John the Baptist all make an appearance in this mad-as-a-box-of-frogs tale, recounted by the world’s greatest liar, of a quest to find the mythical Prester John, against the backdrop of the sack of Constantinople in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. The exuberant inventiveness and Pythonesque humour never overwhelm the just-another-chapter urgency of the witty, tricksy narrative. Probably my favourite Eco. #baudolino #umbertoeco #medievalmadcap #byzantium #fourthcrusade #presterjohn #barbarossa #oldmanofthemountains #constantinople #myths #legends #quests #literatureintranslation #williamweaver #books #bookstagram #bibliophilia https://www.instagram.com/p/CDgVsY2HZNT/?igshid=12steqtuj4vz1
Fall of Constantinople 1204 – An Eyewitness Account draculachronicle.com/2018/06/25/fal… #Byzantium #FourthCrusade #Constantinople #NiketasChoniates #ByzantineEmpire #1204 #middleages #medieval #crusader
Fall of Constantinople 1204 – An Eyewitness Account draculachronicle.com/2018/06/25/fal… #Byzantium #FourthCrusade #Constantinople #NiketasChoniates #ByzantineEmpire #1204 #middleages #medieval #crusader
Fall of Constantinople 1204 – An Eyewitness Account draculachronicle.com/2018/06/25/fal… #Byzantium #FourthCrusade #Constantinople #NiketasChoniates #ByzantineEmpire #1204 #middleages #medieval #crusader
Fall of Constantinople 1204 – An Eyewitness Account draculachronicle.com/2018/06/25/fal… #Byzantium #FourthCrusade #Constantinople #NiketasChoniates #ByzantineEmpire #1204
Byzantium fell for the first time on Tuesday, April 13, 1204, When Crusaders from the West sacked the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Greek historian Niketas Choniates left an eyewitness account of the Fall of Constantinople on that day draculachronicle.com/niketas-chonia… via @draculachron #Byzantium #FourthCrusade #Constantinople #EasternRomanEmpire #NiketasChoniates
