Fourth Crusade

Michael Angold is Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include Byzantium (2002) and The Byzantine Empire (1997).

• PART I: THE FOURTH CRUSADE 1. Introduction: Sources and Perspectives 2. The View from Byzantium 3. The Western Assessment of Byzantium 4. The Events of the Fourth Crusade PART 2: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FOURTH CRUSADE 5. Introduction: Reactions to 1204 6. The Latin Empire of Constantinople 7. The Venetian Dominio 8. The Latin Church of Constantinople 9. The Orthodox Revival 10. The Myth of Byzantium: Destruction and Reconstruction

'a sophisticated, wide-ranging and thought-provoking analysis...a fine, learned and sensitive book.' The Times Literary Supplement '....probably the most important contribution to our understanding of the road to, and significance of 1204...'Christopher Tyerman, The International History Review 'In all, if Angold's book is not the only work readers may want for the story of the Fourth Crusade, its insights and provocations can be ignored by no historian of medieval Christendom in the twelfth-fourteenth centuries.'John W. Barker, Ecclesiastical History, Volume 57/1 - January 2006