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Getting Away with Murder: Runciman and Conrad of Montferrat’s Career in Constantinople (2012)
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Gilchrist, M. M. (2012). Getting Away with Murder: Runciman and Conrad of Montferrat’s Career in Constantinople. The Mediaeval Journal, 2(1), 15-36. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.tmj.1.102770

In his 'History of the Crusades' vol. 2 (1952), Steven Runciman claimed that Conrad of Montferrat arrived in Tyre in 1187 after involvement in ‘a murder’ in Constantinople. This alleged murder was Conrad’s defeat in battle of the rebel general Alexio... Read More about Getting Away with Murder: Runciman and Conrad of Montferrat’s Career in Constantinople.