Greetings all,
On this day, Byzantium Novum reflects on the fall of the Crusader city of Tripoli to the forces of the Mamluke Sultinate on April 26 in 1289 AD:
The siege had lasted 19 days, and the city walls had been battered down by several large catapults, probably trebuchets.
Before
this there had been terrible portents in Constantinople. In the Hagia
Sophia an painted image of the Virgin Mary began to shed tears, an an
icon of St. George began to shed blood.
At first it was
thought these meant a disaster for Constantinople but as news reached
the capital it was reasoned these events were about the fate of the
Christians of Syria in the face of Mamluk Armies.
(From the book "Byzantium and the Crusades" by Johnathan Harris, published 2006)
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
No comments:
Post a Comment