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During the 4th Crusade, Pope Innocent III excommunicated any crusader who attacked a Christian city, but the crusaders famously attacked Eastern European cities including Constantinople anyway. How much of a threat really was excommunication in the 13th century?

by /u/best_of_badgers in /r/AskHistorians

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