The Capture of Constantinople: The "Hystoria Constantinopolitana" of Gunther of Pairis by Gunther of Pairis, Edited by Alfred J. Andrea
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Overview: The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary accounts by secular writers; their perspective is balanced by a document written from a monastic point of view and now available for the first time in English.
The Hystoria Constantinopolitana relates the adventures of Martin of Pairis, an abbot of the Cistercian Order who participated in the plunder of the city, as recorded by his monk Gunther. Written to justify the abbot’s pious pilferage of scared relics and his transporting them back to his monastery in Alsace, it is a work of Christian metahistory that shows how the sack of Constantinople fits into God’s plan for humanity, and that deeds done under divine guidance are themselves holy and righteous.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History
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