Western Eyes on the Latin East: The Chronique d’Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier and Robert of Clari’s Conquête de Constantinople

The article compares the narratives on the Fourth Crusade by Robert de Clari and the Ernoul-Bernard author; their similarities may go back to the cultural milieu of Corbie abbey, that was an important centre for the production of French historiography writtent in prose at the beginning of the thirteenth century. An appendix explores the status quaestionis about Bernard the Treasurer of Corbie abbey, whose name appears in the colophon of two manuscripts of the Ernoul-Bernard Chronique.