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Gunther von Pairis |
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The German Cistercian monk Gunther von Pairis (of the Alsatian monestary of Pairis) provided one of the major crusader eyewitness accounts of the events of the Fourth Crusade [1204] in his work Historia Constantinopolitana, which claims to have been written in 1205.
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His account is not sympathetic to the conquered Byzantines, noting that the Greeks were "the wickedest race of people." He also casts his Abbot, Martin of Pairis, as a type of hero for his acquisition of relics during the three day sack and looting of Constantinople.
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Yet Gunther's accounts of relic thefts are perhaps the most valuable aspect of his work in comparison with other crusader accounts by Geoffroy de Villehardouin and Robert of Clari. This is because Gunther provides the most detailed account..Such thefts were also bitterly recorded by the Byzantine chronicler Nicetas Choniates. Scholar Dr. Alfred J. Andrea of the University of Vermont has published the most recent English translation of Gunther's work from the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1997. |
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| Fourth Crusade- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Primary Sources of the Fourth Crusade- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Dr. Alfred J. Andrea- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Geoffroy de Villehardouin- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Robert of Clari- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Martin of Pairis- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Nicetas Choniates- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Pope Innocent III- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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| Crusades Chronicles and Authors of Primary Sources- Crusades-Encyclopedia |
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