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Author : John Mitchel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783348032742
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Crusade of the Period written by John Mitchel and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231146256
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam written by Jonathan Riley-Smith and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming that many in the West lack a thorough understanding of crusading, Jonathan Riley-Smith explains why and where the Crusades were fought, identifies their architects, and shows how deeply their language and imagery were embedded in popular Catholic thought and devotional life.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141985503
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (855 download)
Download or read book A History of the Crusades written by Steven Runciman and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel' An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and instead shifted the focus of the story to the East. With verve and drama, volume one of Runciman's trilogy tells the story of the First Crusade - from its unlikely beginnings in pilgrimage to the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem and the carving out of new territory on the edge of the eastern Mediterranean. 'Without question one of the major feats of contemporary historical writing' The New York Times 'The historian whose magisterial works transformed our understanding of Byzantium, the medieval church and the crusades' Guardian
Author : JOHN. MITCHEL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033222263
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (222 download)
Download or read book CRUSADE OF THE PERIOD written by JOHN. MITCHEL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192854285
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades written by Jonathan Riley-Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of leading scholars, this richly illustrated book, with over 200 colour and black and white pictures, presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.
Author : David M. Perry
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271066830
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Sacred Plunder written by David M. Perry and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sacred Plunder, David Perry argues that plundered relics, and narratives about them, played a central role in shaping the memorial legacy of the Fourth Crusade and the development of Venice’s civic identity in the thirteenth century. After the Fourth Crusade ended in 1204, the disputes over the memory and meaning of the conquest began. Many crusaders faced accusations of impiety, sacrilege, violence, and theft. In their own defense, they produced hagiographical narratives about the movement of relics—a medieval genre called translatio—that restated their own versions of events and shaped the memory of the crusade. The recipients of relics commissioned these unique texts in order to exempt both the objects and the people involved with their theft from broader scrutiny or criticism. Perry further demonstrates how these narratives became a focal point for cultural transformation and an argument for the creation of the new Venetian empire as the city moved from an era of mercantile expansion to one of imperial conquest in the thirteenth century.
Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698186443
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Crusaders written by Dan Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones. For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era. Expanding the usual timeframe, Jones looks to the roots of Christian-Muslim relations in the eighth century and tracks the influence of crusading to present day. He widens the geographical focus to far-flung regions home to so-called enemies of the Church, including Spain, North Africa, southern France, and the Baltic states. By telling intimate stories of individual journeys, Jones illuminates these centuries of war not only from the perspective of popes and kings, but from Arab-Sicilian poets, Byzantine princesses, Sunni scholars, Shi'ite viziers, Mamluk slave soldiers, Mongol chieftains, and barefoot friars. Crusading remains a rallying call to this day, but its role in the popular imagination ignores the cooperation and complicated coexistence that were just as much a feature of the period as warfare. The age-old relationships between faith, conquest, wealth, power, and trade meant that crusading was not only about fighting for the glory of God, but also, among other earthly reasons, about gold. In this richly dramatic narrative that gives voice to sources usually pushed to the margins, Dan Jones has written an authoritative survey of the holy wars with global scope and human focus.
Author : E.J. Mylod
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317160185
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Fifth Crusade in Context written by E.J. Mylod and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Crusade represented a cardinal event in early thirteenth-century history, occurring during what was probably the most intensive period of crusading in both Europe and the Holy Land. Following the controversial outcome of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215, Pope Innocent III's reform agenda was set to give momentum to a new crusading effort. Despite the untimely death of Innocent III in 1216, the elaborate organisation and firm crusading framework made it possible for Pope Honorius III to launch and oversee the expedition. The Fifth Crusade marked the last time that a medieval pope would succeed in mounting a full-scale, genuinely international crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land, yet, despite its significance, it has largely been neglected in the historiography. The crusade was much more than just a military campaign, and the present book locates it in the contemporary context for the first time. The Fifth Crusade in Context is of crucial importance not only to better understand the organization and execution of the expedition itself, but also to appreciate its place in the longer history of crusading, as well as the significance of its impact on the medieval world.
Author : Norman Housley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137462817
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Reconfiguring the Fifteenth-Century Crusade written by Norman Housley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages. It is the outcome of an international network funded by the Leverhulme Trust whose members examined the persistence of crusading activity in the fifteenth century from three viewpoints, goals, agencies and resonances. The crusading fronts considered include the conflict with the Ottoman Turks in the Mediterranean and western Balkans, the Teutonic Order’s activities in the Baltic region, and the Hussite crusades. The authors review criticism of crusading propaganda on behalf of the crusade, the influence on crusading of demands for Church reform, the impact of printing, expanding knowledge of the world beyond the Christian lands, and new sensibilities about the sufferings of non-combatants.
Author : John Mitchel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Crusade of the Period written by John Mitchel and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141904313
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book God's War written by Christopher Tyerman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' - Tom Holland, Spectator Thousands left their homelands in the Middle Ages to fight wars abroad. But how did the Crusades actually happen? From recruitment propaganda to raising money, ships to siege engines, medicine to the power of prayer, this vivid, surprising history shows holy war - and medieval society - in a new light.
Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681775867
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages written by Christopher Tyerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited and sweeping account of how the crusades really worked—and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle Ages. The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing and hugely costly business of actually preparing a crusade. The efforts of many thousands of men and women, who left their lands and families in Western Europe, and marched off to a highly uncertain future in the Holy Land and elsewhere have never been sufficiently understood. Their actions raise a host of compelling questions about the nature of medieval society. How to Plan a Crusade is remarkably illuminating on the diplomacy, communications, propaganda, use of mass media, medical care, equipment, voyages, money, weapons, wills, ransoms, animals, and the power of prayer during this dynamic era. It brings to life an extraordinary period of history in a new and surprising way.
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624669972
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from greater Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and Egypt, the sources in this anthology—many of which are translated into English for the first time here--provide eyewitness and contemporary historical accounts of what unfolded in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. In providing representative examples of the many disparate types of Muslim sources, this volume opens a window onto life in the Islamic Near East during the Crusader period and the interactions between Franks and Muslims in the broader context of Islamic history. Ideally suited for use in undergraduate courses on the Crusades or the pre-modern Islamic Near East, this anthology will also appeal to any readers seeking a better understanding of the Islamic response to the Crusades and the general history of the Near East in this period.
Author : Jonathan Howard
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1610428048
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Crusades written by Jonathan Howard and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crusades were a series of military campaigns undertaken by Western European countries between the 11th and 16th century. Originally called by the Pope of the Catholic Church, the stated first goal was to take up the cross and restore Christian control over the Holy Land (namely Jerusalem). In total Western Europe engaged in over 10 crusades, though not all were for this original purpose. At first the Crusades were fought to assist the Byzantine Empire, who requested European help in fighting off the expansion of the Muslim Turks. In time, though, the term crusade was used to describe wars against pagans, heretics, and those threatened with excommunication from the Church. Interesting, one set of Crusades actually led to an alliance between Christians and Muslims, and another was called against fellow Catholics. Jonathan Howard looks into the history of the crusades in this short eBook.
Author : Elizabeth Lapina
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027107311X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade written by Elizabeth Lapina and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade, Elizabeth Lapina examines a variety of these chronicles, written both by participants in the crusade and by those who stayed behind. Her goal is to understand the enterprise from the perspective of its contemporaries and near contemporaries. Lapina analyzes the diversity of ways in which the chroniclers tried to justify the First Crusade as a “holy war,” where physical violence could be not just sinless, but salvific. The book focuses on accounts of miracles reported to have happened in the course of the crusade, especially the miracle of the intervention of saints in the Battle of Antioch. Lapina shows why and how chroniclers used these miracles to provide historical precedent and to reconcile the messiness of history with the conviction that history was ordered by divine will. In doing so, she provides an important glimpse into the intellectual efforts of the chronicles and their authors, illuminating their perspectives toward the concepts of history, salvation, and the East. Warfare and the Miraculous in the Chronicles of the First Crusade demonstrates how these narratives sought to position the crusade as an event in the time line of sacred history. Lapina offers original insights into the effects of the crusade on the Western imaginary as well as how medieval authors thought about and represented history.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521061612
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)
Download or read book A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem written by Steven Runciman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1951 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004349596
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Acre and Its Falls written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acre and its Falls analyses a wide range of aspects of the history of Acre across the crusader period, combining political, military and cultural history, with a notable emphasis on the memory of the city in Europe.
