[Antoninus]

Too tempting? The barbarity with which the 4th "crusade" undertook to destroy the Byzantine capital defies logic and belief.

If the Byzantines had managed to present a united front and not continuously and viciously fought against each other, Constantinople might never have fallen to the adventurers of the so-called 4th crusade.

"The soldiery burned libraries in their campfires, and though nominal Christians, they held ribald orgies in Aghia Sophia, while prostitutes performed filthy actions and dances on the very altar."

I suppose the "crusaders" brought the prostitutes with them? Prostitution and all kinds of other lawlessness were a recurring problem in Constantinople.

There was plenty of corruption on both sides to make the sack of Constantinople a blot on the history of Eastern and Western Christendom.

[eleni121]

Nothing - even your lame and frankly unChristian excuses - can exculpate the barbaric behavior of the rabble of the 4th "crusade".