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An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.
Author : Simon Thomas Parsons
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Crusades
ISBN : 9781843844587
An interdisciplinary approach to sources for our knowledge of the crusades.
Author : John Green
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486451658
Set against a vivid backdrop of ancient lands and mighty fortresses, 30 ready-to-color pictures of the Crusades depict fierce battles, courageous leaders, and the fall of magnificent cities.
Author : Joseph Fr. Michaud
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Crusades
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300101287
"Pulls off the enviable feat of summing up seven centuries of religious warfare in a crisp 309 pages of text."--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World In this authoritative work, Jonathan Riley-Smith provides the definitive account of the Crusades: an account of the theology of violence behind the Crusades, the major Crusades, the experience of crusading, and the crusaders themselves. With a wealth of fascinating detail, Riley-Smith brings to life these stirring expeditions to the Holy Land and the politics and personalities behind them. This new edition includes revisions throughout as well as a new Preface and Afterword in which Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to the Islamic world today. From reviews of the first edition: "Everything is here: the crusades to the Holy Land, and against the Albigensians, the Moors, the pagans in Eastern Europe, the Turks, and the enemies of the popes. Riley-Smith writes a beautiful, lucid prose, . . . [and his book] is packed with facts and action."--Choice "A concise, clearly written synthesis . . . by one of the leading historians of the crusading movement. "--Robert S. Gottfried, Historian "A lively and flowing narrative [with] an enormous cast of characters that is not a mere catalog but a history. . . . A remarkable achievement."--Thomas E. Morrissey, Church History "Superb."--Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Speculum "A first-rate one-volume survey of the Crusading movement from 1074 . . . to 1798."--Southwest Catholic
Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1108474519
This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.
Author : von Sybel
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 1861
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Duff Gordon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2022-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3375041101
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Author : Jonathan Phillips
Publisher : Random House
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1588369757
From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars. Starting with Pope Urban II’s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world’s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions—as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries. Holy Warriors also discusses how the term “crusade” survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush’s pious “war on terror.” Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figures—from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalem—Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.
Author : David A. Wacks
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1487505019
Reading crusader fiction against the backdrop of Mediterranean history, this book explains how Iberian authors reimagined the idea of crusade through the lens of Iberian geopolitics and social history. The crusades transformed Mediterranean history and inaugurated complex engagements between Western Europe, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Middle East in ways that endure to this day. Narratives of crusades powerfully shaped European thinking about the East and continue to influence the representation of interactions between Christian and Muslim states in the region. The crusade, a French idea that gave rise to Iberian, North African, and Levantine campaigns, was very much a Mediterranean phenomenon. French and English authors wrote itineraries in the Holy Land, chronicles of the crusades, and fanciful accounts of Christian knights who championed the Latin Church in the East. This study aims to explore the ways in which Iberian authors imagined their role in the culture of crusade, both as participants and interpreters of narrative traditions of the crusading world from north of the Pyrenees.
Author : Heinrich Carl Ludolf von SYBEL
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1861
Category :
ISBN :