Bryan is being obscure again
Friday, October 15th, 2004 01:09 amFor reasons too boring to go into, though a number of you out there will guess why I'm after it, can anyone advise me on where I might be able to get a copy of a translation of La Conquête de Constantinople, an eyewitness account by Robert de Clari?
Amazon.co.uk is useless in this instance, and Amazon.com only has a facsimile of the mediaeval French text, which is not going to be much use to me given my expertise with modern French.
I am told by people who know these things* that it is a better written and fuller account that Geoffroi de Villhardouin's account in his Memoirs of the Fourth Crusade which I am ploughing through now. Suggestions gratefully received, books gratefully borrowed.
*i.e. my boss's boss who, would you believe, translates mediaeval French texts on the crusades for fun ( - and I thought I had obscure interests)
Amazon.co.uk is useless in this instance, and Amazon.com only has a facsimile of the mediaeval French text, which is not going to be much use to me given my expertise with modern French.
I am told by people who know these things* that it is a better written and fuller account that Geoffroi de Villhardouin's account in his Memoirs of the Fourth Crusade which I am ploughing through now. Suggestions gratefully received, books gratefully borrowed.
*i.e. my boss's boss who, would you believe, translates mediaeval French texts on the crusades for fun ( - and I thought I had obscure interests)