Niektoré technické aspekty obliehania a dobytia Konštantínopola križiakmi (1203 – 1204)

To Technical Aspects of the Siege and the Capture of Constantinople by Crusaders (1203 – 1204)

Autor: MEŠKO Marek

MEŠKO, Marek: Niektoré technické aspekty obliehania a dobytia Konštantínopola križiakmi (1203 – 1204)

MEŠKO, Marek: On some technical Aspects of the Siege and the Capture of Constantinople by the Crusaders (1203 – 1204).

Vojenská história, 2, 12, 2008, pp. 3–27.

Political consequences of the conquest of Constantinople by the army of the fourth crusade are well known. But there is still some lack of information regarding its military and technical aspects. There are questions about the construction and the appearance of Venetian suspended wooden bridges placed on the masts of Venetian transport vessels. This article deals with those problems and offers their possible solution based on the evidence from the contemporary historical sources and on recently established measures of the hull and rigging of the archetypal Mediterranean 12th century transport ship. Byzantines, being confronted with a new way of carrying out military operations, did also recur to original counter-measures, whose goal was to strengthen and to heighten the sea city walls along the Golden Horn. The nature and the construction of those wooden superstructures remain rather unknown, and could be reconstructed only partially.

Key words: Military history. Byzantine empire. Medieval warfare. Constantinople and Crusaders.

 

Ročník: 12 | Číslo: 2/2008 | Stránky: 3–27