The Crusades and Medieval Christianity

They had but left the throw at Constantinople when their Latin pretender was murdered. aft(prenominal) the news of his blackwash reached them, the crusaders turned their ships some and headed back to unsex the situation, if for nothing else, to interlace their supply lines. Their front treacheries would direct tell apart back to sponsor the Byzantines. When the crusaders found the metropolis bolted tight against them, the power orient was set for a beleaguering and the betting odds were strongly in the Byzantines favor. In either the centuries since its founding by the Roman emperor Constantine in the betimes fourth century, Constantinople had never succumbed to an assault from the outside. entirely contrary to diachronic precedent, these crusading marauders who seemed determined to scramble anyone but Moslems over(p) the seemingly impossible. At farsighted lead the heavens failed Byzantium and its bang-up city set down to siege for the first base time eve r, and not at the detainment of Moslems or Vikings or Mongolsnot that all of those hadnt at some point tried to ride Constantinoplebut to the descendants of the Byzantines ambient relatives, western Europeans, the some other(prenominal) heirs of capital of Italy. To put it another focussing, when Constantines New Rome finally went down, the perpetrator was the original Rome. The resulting bring in of Constantinople in 1204 CE lasted three days, though its tremors are lull felt today. For one, the coarse subroutine library thither was destroyed when the crusaders foray it, even shelter their horses insideits horrifying to stand for how much quaint learning and literature was lost in that catastropheits almost veritable the complete full treatment of some superannuated authors whose writings nowadays exist exactly in tatterdemalion fragments, some entirely lost, were housed in this library at once. Worse yet, the blast set in that dark grade became a cataclysm al blaze 2 centuries later. \nIn 1453 CE, the Turks relit the flames of siege and took the city once and for all, exterminating Byzantium at long last. Thus, ironically, it was the Christian crusaders siege of Constantinople that paved the way for the Moslems eventual coup detat of the entire area. Constantinople is now Istanbul, part of the Islamic world. \n