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

• Authors: Zdzisław Pentek

Abstracts

EN

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

EN

the Crusades; the Fourth Crusade; French chroniclers; Constantinople; provisions; supplies; volume units

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Historiae Oeconomicae
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 109-114

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Zdzisław Pentek

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000000165006559

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/sho-2014-0006

Biblioteka Nauki

1683525