The Conquest of Constantinople | 
Reading Robert of Clari‘s account of the wonders of Constantinople at the Sun Diner in Nashville after #pla2020. Robert was a very low-ranking knight during the Fourth Crusade, which sacked Constantinople in 1204. The sack was a desecration. It wrecked the city, installed a brief “Latin” empire, and made the eventual destruction at the hands of the Turks inevitable. Robert saw none of the politics, but his account is amazing for what it did see.
TimSpalding There are long sections on the wonders of Constantinople. I can picture in my mind what he‘d write about the wonders of Nashville and its honkey-tonks. 4y
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