Crucem Sanctam Subiit but you’re marching back from the Fourth Crusade

1204 worst year of my life The prominent medievalist Sir Steven Runciman wrote in 1954: “There was never a greater crime against humanity than the Fourth Crusade.“ Constantinople was considered as a bastion of Christianity that defended Europe from the advancing forces of Islam, and the Fourth Crusade’s sack of the city dealt an irreparable blow to this eastern bulwark. Although the Greeks retook Constantinople after 57 years of Latin rule, the Byzantine Empire had been crippled by the Fourth Crusade. -