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works extant, tells how the fourth crusade (1202–4) was diverted from its objective of freeing the Holy Land and instead besieged Constantinople. Sparely written and deferential to the mighty, it gives ‘treachery’ and ‘covetousness’, not political differences, as explanations of the loss of purpose. Not all history dealt with the Orient, however. Robert de Clari’s Anglo-Norman Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal (1219–26) used eye-witness evidence to cover British history between 1186 and 1219. Les Grandes