The First Crusade from the Byzantine Perspective | Animated History of the Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire actually played a pretty big role in all the Crusades, but especially the first one. Let's take a closer look.

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Sources:

Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: the Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization. Crown Publishers, 2010.

Frankopan, Peter. “The View from the East. Byzantine Accounts of the First Crusade.” History Today, vol. 62, no. 9, History Today Ltd., Sept. 2012, pp. 38–45.

Herrin, Judith. Byzantium: the Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. Princeton University Press, 2009.

Lilie, Ralph-Johannes. Byzantium and the Crusader States, 1096-1204. Clarendon, 1993.

Stouraitis, Ioannis. (2011). Jihād and Crusade: Byzantine positions towards the notions of “holy war.” Byzantina Symmeikta, 21(1), 11–63.

Tanase, Raul C. "Byzantine Diplomatic Strategies During The Period of the First Four Crusades." Research and Science Today, no. 2, 2014, pp. 223-230.


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