261:. All of Greece is said to have paid homage to the new emperor, but he reneged on his pledge and did not pay the crusaders for their aid. The army and its patron fall out, the latter is deposed and killed and the crusaders sack the city. The final contracts occur when the Greeks surrender to Boniface while the crusader army elects Baldwin as the new emperor.
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Listen, my beloved brethren: did not God choose the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Is it not the rich who oppress you and personally drag you into court? Do they not blaspheme the fair name
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contains two errors of dating. It mistakenly dates Peter of Capua's preaching tour to 1202, probably because the author as a German was not directly familiar with events in France. It also places the assault on the harbour wall of
Constantinople correctly on 9 April 1204, but incorrectly states that
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The author also shows great interest in contracts, oaths, pledges and treaties, a series of eight of which structures the entire narrative. The first contracts are the crusading vows and the pledges made by surrogates to go in place of those crusaders who died before setting out. The compact made by
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The author probably relied mostly on notes he had kept while on crusade. The final work, however, is a coherent and well-crafted history, not a diary. Tessier and Kandel took it to be an official work, but this is not widely accepted. To Andrea, there is no evidence that the author was close to any
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On the third day following entry into Zara, a quarrel arose between the
Venetians and the pilgrims, in which almost one hundred people were killed. The barons kept the city's goods for themselves, giving nothing to the poor. The poor labored mightily in poverty and hunger. Consequently, when they
311:. The anonymous author identifies with the rank-and-file, the "poor in the eyes of the world". His attitude has often been labelled anti-Venetian, but it might be better labelled anti-elite. The material success of the barons and Venetians is contrasted with the plight of the poor crusaders. The
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to hurry the armed contingents on their way to the rendezvous in Venice is presented as the first counter-crusade action. The next major contracts are the oath of allegiance taken by the barons to
Boniface (who is referred to throughout simply as the Marquis) and the agreement with Venice, which
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without title or comment. Although they are not by the same author, the copyist probably intended them to be read together, with the council as a happy epilogue to the unfortunate crusade. The
Lateran account in Cod. Marc. Lat. 1990 was almost certainly copied from a manuscript of
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Innocent's death on 16 July 1216. It has been proposed that the author relied for some of his information on the letters sent by Baldwin of Flanders to Pope Innocent after he became emperor, but this is not conclusive.
224:. The author pays special attention to numbers such as prices and payments and also keeps track of the size of the army by counting fatalities, casualties, leaves and desertions. The number of ships in the Venetian fleet and the number of
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is not named in the sole surviving copy of the work and he does not refer to himself in the work. His identity, or aspects of it, must be inferred from the text. There is no scholarly consensus. Most scholars accept that he was from the
45:'s coverage is detailed and its perspective unique. It portrays the Fourth Crusade as a series of un-Christian betrayals of the poor by the rich. Modern historians have used it more for its factual detail than for its perspective.
257:, Alexios makes pledges and gives surety to the army in exchange for its continued support as he establishes his rule. Next, the new emperor contracts a portion of the army to help him pursue the deposed emperor
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complained greatly about the barons, they managed to get ships to ferry them to Ancona, and one thousand departed with leave and, in addition, more than a thousand without leave.
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is also tracked. These statistics are generally accurate, especially when based on first-hand observation, but they are occasionally infected by "camp rumour".
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