The Fourth Crusade and the Problem of Food Provision in The Accounts of Robert De Clari and Geoffroy De Villehardouin

Pentek Zdzisław
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Pentek Zdzisław: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae, 2014, vol. 32, issue 1, 109-114

Abstract: This text provides the analysis of two texts, written by Robert de Clari and Geoffroy de Villehardouin, two chroniclers at the times of the Fourth Crusade. The analysis discusses their account of food provision and how Crusaders managed to provide for themselves during their journey from Venice to Constantinople in the period between June 1202 and May 1204.

Keywords: the Crusades; the Fourth Crusade; French chroniclers; Constantinople; provisions; supplies; volume units (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2478/sho-2014-0006

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