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The Fourth Crusade: And the Sack of Constantinople
The Fourth Crusade: And The
Sack Of Constantinople
    In April 1204, the
    armies of Western
    Christendom wrote another
    bloodstained chapter in
    the history of holy war.
    Two years earlier,
    aflame with religious
    zeal, the Fourth Crusade
    set out to free Jerusalem
    from the grip of Islam.
    But after a dramatic
    series of events, the
    crusaders turned their
    weapons against the
    Christian city of
    Constantinople, the
    heart of the Byzantine
    Empire and the greatest
    metropolis in the known
    world. The crusaders
    spared no one in their
    savagery: they murdered
    and raped old and young -
    they desecrated churches,
    plundered treasuries and
    much of the city was put
    to the torch. Some
    contemporaries were
    delighted: God had
    approved this punishment
    of the effeminate,
    treacherous Greeks;
    others expressed shock
    and disgust at this
    perversion of the
    crusading ideal. History
    has judged this as the
    crusade that went wrong.
    In this remarkable new
    assessment of the Fourth
    Crusade, Jonathan
    Phillips follows the
    fortunes of the leading
    players and explores the
    conflicting motives that
    drove the expedition to
    commit the most infamous
    massacre of the crusading
    movement.
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The Fourth Crusade: And the Sack of Constantinople
The Fourth Crusade: And The
Sack Of Constantinople
    In April 1204, the
    armies of Western
    Christendom wrote another
    bloodstained chapter in
    the history of holy war.
    Two years earlier,
    aflame with religious
    zeal, the Fourth Crusade
    set out to free Jerusalem
    from the grip of Islam.
    But after a dramatic
    series of events, the
    crusaders turned their
    weapons against the
    Christian city of
    Constantinople, the
    heart of the Byzantine
    Empire and the greatest
    metropolis in the known
    world. The crusaders
    spared no one in their
    savagery: they murdered
    old and young, they
    raped women and girls -
    even nuns - in their
    frenzy. They also
    desecrated churches and
    plundered treasuries,
    and much of the city was
    put to the torch. In
    celebration of the
    victory, a prostitute
    from the crusader army
    climbed onto the altar of
    the Hagia Sophia and
    gyrated to obscene songs;
    barbarism cloaked in the
    mantle of religious
    warfare had swept aside
    one of the great
    civilisations of history.
    Some contemporaries were
    delighted: God had
    approved this punishment
    of the effeminate,
    treacherous Greeks;
    others expressed shock
    and disgust at this
    perversion of the
    crusading ideal. History
    has judged this as the
    crusade that went wrong
    and even today the
    violence and brutality of
    the western knights
    provokes deep ill-feeling
    from many Greek Orthodox
    towards the Catholic
    Church. In this
    remarkable new assessment
    of the Fourth Crusade,
    Jonathan Phillips doesn't
    just follow the fortunes
    of the leading players,
    but explores the
    conflicting motives that
    drove the expedition to
    commit the most infamous
    massacre of the crusading
    movement and looks at the
    experience of crusading
    from the perspective of a
    knight.
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The Book Of Common Prayer: 1662 Version
The Book Of Common Prayer:
1662 Version
    The plays of Shakespeare,
    the Authorized version
    of the Bible and the Book
    of Common Prayer, all
    produced in the late
    16th/early 17th
    centuries, are the three
    dounding texts of the
    English nation and its
    language. Not only do
    they share a beauty and a
    power of style which have
    never been equalled:
    their influence on
    Anglophone culture
    remains profound.
    Originally produced by
    Archbishop Cranmer and
    his allies to bolster the
    Tudor secession from
    Catholicism, the Pray
    Book rapidly took on a
    life of its own. Until
    the present century,
    most Anglicans knew long
    stretches of the text by
    heart. It invaded the
    style of 17th-century p
    oets and even 19th
    century novelists like
    George Elliot. It still
    colours our language and
    our way of feeling today,
    though we hardly know
    it. In recent years the
    Prayer Book has been
    under attack by
    modernizers and radicals
    within the church itself.
    On the 450th anniversary
    of its first appearance,
    the time has come to
    proclaim the value of
    this work once more and
    to recognize it for what
    it is: a liturgical and
    literary masterpiece.
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