The Kingdom of Thessalonica was a short-lived state that emerged during the Fourth Crusade after the sack of Constantinople ...

Intellectual life in the modern West traces its origins to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, by the launch of the First ...

Things came to a head in 1204, when the Fourth Crusade sacked and looted Constantinople, making that Greek-speaking city the capital of a shaky "Latin Empire” that endured for 57 years. Eleven ...

The Crusade was a failure and relations between ... She died on 31 March 1204 and was buried in the abbey church at Fontevrault next to Henry II.