The Clergy during the Fourth Crusade as Portrayed in Geoffrey de Villehardouin’s Chronicle
The Clergy during the Fourth Crusade as Portrayed in Geoffrey de Villehardouin’s Chronicle
Author(s): Zdzisław PentekSubject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: clergy of the Fourth Crusade; Constantinople; Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Summary/Abstract: An article analysing information about the clerics during the Fourth Crusade mentioned by the chronicler of this expedition, Geoffrey of Villehardouin († c. 1219), in the Old French chronicle La conquête de Constantinople. The author has distinguished three types of clerics, participants in the crusade, and traced mentions thereof in the work and the opinions about them.
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 643-651
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English