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Sep 12, 2026
speaker_6NARRATOR
Accordingly, they had determined to avert the blow from Egypt and turn it against some other enemy of Christendom.
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The leaders of the Fourth Crusade proved unable to pay the full sum which they had contracted to give the Venetians as ship hire, and this was made an excuse for keeping them camped on the unhealthy islands of the lagoons till their patience and their stores were like exhausted.
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Henry Dandolo, the aged but wily Doge, then proposed to the Crusaders that they should pay their way by doing something in aid of Venice.
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The Dalmatian town of Zara had lately revolted and done homage to the King of Hungary.
Alexander MercourisHOST
And the relations between the Byzantines and the Arabs, which is very interesting and very different from what we have now.
Alexander MercourisHOST
And then also, one has to say at the time of the Fourth Crusade, the whole interaction with the Crusaders and what came after with the Palaiologos.
Alexander MercourisHOST
So there's an awful lot to talk about with Byzantium.
Alex ChristoforouHOST
Okay.
LukeHOST
I think the first huge blow was in 1204.
LukeHOST
The Fourth Crusade going awry and taking Constantinople.
LukeHOST
And the church being like, no, stop.
LukeHOST
Okay, anyway, we're going to accept money and everything from this.
BlueHOST
Um, because the, the difficulty is like, okay, I recognize that I, I kind of want to acknowledge there are multiple perspectives here.
BlueHOST
It's not just like, oh no, the Fourth Crusade, how sad.
BlueHOST
Okay, the Greeks just shut up for 400 years, 600 years-
IndigoHOST
Mm-hmm
BlueHOST
It's like, no, not actually how that works.
BlueHOST
It gives...
BlueHOST
E- even if it's like, oh, the Venetians are so horrible for doing the Fourth Crusade, and then the Greeks were nothing, it's like, no, like conquered peoples are still people, and there's kind of a, a larger history, um, to unpack there in every scenario where someone like shows up and enforces their author- and enforces their authority.
BlueHOST
We don't get to just be like, "Oh, well, and then they simply disappeared." It's like, no, the people-
SimonHOST
Some of them were a bit more obvious than others.
SimonHOST
But if you didn't spot those, by all means... go back and listen to episode five again and see if you can spot all of the queen song titles about eight i think We've had various questions about the Fourth Crusade and Enrico de Andaloc, obviously, because that was a big deal and we certainly made a big deal of it.
SimonHOST
Was it 12 episodes, something like that?
JessHOST
Yeah.
JessHOST
It was hard.
SimonHOST
Basically, we've put it off until the end of the Republic, where we have to go back through all the dojos and say, OK, who wins? At that point, we're going to have to pick between them and all the others.
SimonHOST
And I know when we talked to Robin and Marco on that episode at the end of the Fourth Crusade series, they both...
SimonHOST
I can't remember whether we cut this out.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
He fully intended on going back.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
And in fact, what becomes later the Fourth Crusade, what we call the Fourth Crusade, was originally preached and intended for him to lead.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
Now, Richard had an idea that he proposed, and that was we should attack Egypt because Egypt is where the real power lies.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
And if we can attack Egypt and take Cairo, then we control the Sinai.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
and so he kind of dies sadly you know he doesn't die in a blaze of glory he doesn't get to go back and leave that's one of the big what-ifs of history if richard got to go back and lead this great crusade
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because if
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
richard had led it most likely it would have drawn a lot more people people have talked about the fourth crusade on your show again people can listen to those and you can hear about it but richard doesn't survive And of course, then it leads his younger brother, who is always the bad guy in Robin Hood, in the Robin Hood stories, for good reason, John Lackland.
Matthew PhillipsGUEST
So John actually ends up becoming king, because although Richard did marry, he did not produce an heir, and so John becomes the next king.
Taylor TreadwayHOST
So no, that's good.
Taylor TreadwayHOST
Well, we are venturing back into the fourth crusade.
Taylor TreadwayHOST
We always enjoy break.
Taylor TreadwayHOST
Yeah.
John SimonHOST
We've been through two.
John SimonHOST
We've experienced three.
John SimonHOST
But today we talk about four, the fourth crusade.
John SimonHOST
Some might say the best of all the crusades.
Todd FrielHOST
That doesn't sound like people who are just going to get rich.
Todd FrielHOST
Does it? One of the chief reasons for the foundering of the Fourth Crusade, because there were a number of them, it ran out of money before it got started.
Todd FrielHOST
Louis IX's Seventh Crusade in the mid-13th century cost more than six times the annual revenue of the crown.
Todd FrielHOST
These were counter attacks, very costly for the participants.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
arabic speakers um and uh and i think that's uh it's it's a it's a you know people focus on the actual acts of the crusades the actual campaigns which were mostly disastrous the only one that really worked at all was the first one and that you know only didn't really accomplish any of the things it was supposed to be doing but it did uh make some crusaders happy um but um but then what's to me much more interesting is the way that for more than a century afterwards you have these kind of strange little very small free Buddha kingdoms in the Levant run by individuals but very much with support from european cities kings and so on um and and that that can only happen by really engaging with the context they find themselves in so i think in many ways that crusades era cannot be actual campaigns themselves they also i mean they attacked a lot of basically a lot of the time they would attack anyone who was vulnerable.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
And so that included the Fourth Crusade.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
The Franks and the Venetians go off and they sack Christian Zadar on the Adriatic and Christian Constantinople.
Josephine QuinnGUEST
It's almost it.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The 19th century Danish historian and philologist, Johan Ludwig Heiberg, called this Codex A. Heiberg theorized that another codex, Codex B, contained several of Archimedes' treatises, including the two parts of a text entitled On Floating Bodies, which were not included in in Codex A.
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These two Byzantine codices were removed from Constantinople in 1204, when the city was sacked by Latin Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade.
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By 1269, they were in the collection of the Papal Library in Viterbo, in central Italy, where yet another scholar, William of Murbeca, translated them from Greek into a Latin edition of Archimedes.
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Codex B may have been lost in the early 14th century as subsequent Latin translations do not contain a treatise called on floating bodies and are, therefore, taken from Codex A, which remained one of the most valuable ancient texts in Renaissance Italy until it was lost in the middle of the 16th century.
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