Bryan is being obscure again

[caddyman]

For 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)

Comments

Re: wait

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

You must have the magic touch - I swear when I searched for it, only a French facsimile showed up... ;-)

Re: wait

[jennanne.livejournal.com]

I was shocked that I found it too!! I found it on-line at OCLC First search, some sort of library search, which gave me the ISBN number so I looked that up on Amazon and poof there it was. I was tickled pink. *S*