id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-2181	Wortley, John	The Byzantine Component of the Relic-hoard of Constantinople	1999	26	.pdf	application/pdf	9331	348	63	THE RELIC-HOARD OF CONSTANTINOPLE on 12 April 1204, the city fell and in the wake of the subsequent sacking, together with many other treasures, many relics perished, while still more were dispersed, mainly throughout western Europe. As for the relics, these were beyond description, for there were as many at that time in Constantinople as in all the rest of the world.1 At the time in question (A.D. 1203) that city may well have housed even more relics than the phlegmatic Marshall of Cham- pagne allows, for relics were then the greatest treasure of the richest city known to western man.	cache/grbs-2181.pdf	txt/grbs-2181.txt