In 1203, a massive Venetian fleet sailed into the Golden Horn intent on landing a Crusader army and taking the city of Constantinople. The Crusaders had intended to sail to Egypt but they had failed to pay the Venetians and now were doing the Venetians bidding in attempting to put the young claimant Alexius Angelus… Read More »
BOOK REVIEW – A History of Venice: Queen of the Seas
Medieval European history has been an ongoing fascination for me for the past couple of years, probably since reading 1453: The Holy War For Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley. Here is a huge chunk of history – roughly a thousand years! – that is virtually ignored in most… Read More »
