massacre of Latins Massacre of Latins in Constantinople, 1182 was a large scale massacre of Venetian, Genoese and Pisan merchants and there families. Andrew Holt [1] reports Warren Carroll's[2] suggestion that this massacre can be connected the events the sack of Constantinople n 1204 during the Fourth Crusade. He argues that "Horrible and utterly indefensible as the sack was, it should in justice be remembered that it was not totally unprovoked; more than once (as in the massacre of 1182) the Greeks of Constantinople had treated the Latins there as they were now being treated ... Historians who wax eloquent and indignant - with considerable reason - about the sack of Constantinople ... rarely if ever mention the massacre of the Westerners in Constantinople in 1182 ... a nightmarish massacre of thousands in which the slaughterers spared neither women nor children, neither old nor sick, neither priest nor monk. Cardinal John, the Pope's representative, was beheaded and his head was dragged through the streets at the tail of a dog; children were cut out of their mother's wombs; bodies of dead Westerners were exhumed and abused; some 4,000 who escaped death were sold into slavery to the Turks."
- ^ http://www.crusades-encyclopedia.com/1182.html
- ^ Warren Carroll. The Glory of Christendom , (Front Royal, VA: Christendom Press, 1993), 157, 131.
Paradigms of Social Change: Modernization, Development, Transformation, Evolution
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Published by Campus Verlag, 2000
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