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Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century

Author : Vardit Shotten-Hallel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367196745
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century written by Vardit Shotten-Hallel and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On some characteristics of the Second Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1191-1291 / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The statutes of the Italian brotherhood of the Holy Spirit in Acre: 'Italian' interactions between East and West during the fifth crusade / Beatrice Saletti -- "Make Camp, Lord Brothers, on behalf of God": first archaeological evidence for encampments in the Latin East, excavated in the Spring of Saforie / Rafael Lewis, Nimrod Getzov and Ianir Milevsky -- Ex Mari Lux or the Development of the naval siege warfare in the crusading Levant / Pierre-Vincent Claverie -- The Templars and 'Atlit / Helen Nicholson -- 'Atlit Castle surveys: charters vs. the archaeological evidence / Vardit Shotten-Hallel -- Medieval 'Atlit in the historiography of Incarceration / Yvonne Friedman -- The medieval cemetery of 'Atlit: historiography and new archaeological data (2014-2019) / Yves Gleize -- Towards a history of thirteenth-century gothic in the Latin East / Michalis Olympios -- Limassol from 1191 to 1300: its importance in the context of Crusades, trade and settlement / Nicholas Coureas -- Arab Christian refugees in Lusignan Cyprus during the thirteenth century: pictorial impact and evidence / Geoffrey Meyer-Fernandez -- The predicaments of Aimery de Lusignan: Baronial factionalism and the consolidation of power in the Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus, 1197-1205 / Stephen Donnachie -- The Charters of the Fifth Crusade revisited / Thomas W. Smith -- "Por Ce Qu'i Mielz L'Eentendent Qui Ne Sunt Letree": translating the story of the First Crusade / Carol Sweetenham -- Biebelried near Würzburg: a thirteenth-century Hospitaller Castle in Franconia and its contexts / Karl Borchardt -- Echoes of the Latin East among the Hospitallers of the West: the Priory of St Gilles, c.1260-c.1300 / Damien Carraz -- Thinking about the Holy Land and crusading in the Crown of Aragon and Navarre (thirteenth century) / Maria Bonet and Julia Pavón -- The Babenberg Dukes of Austria - Crusaders 'par excellence' / Miha Kosi -- Eberhard of Sayn : the Teutonic Grand Commander and his contribution to the military order's position in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem / Shlomo Lotan.

Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century

Author : Vardit Shotten-Hallel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780429203886
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century written by Vardit Shotten-Hallel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century sheds new light on formerly less explored aspects of the crusading movement and the Latin East during the thirteenth century. In commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the construction of 'Atlit Castle, a significant section of this volume is dedicated to the castle, which was one of the most impressive built in the Latin East. Scholarly debate has centred on the reasons behind the construction of the castle, its role in the defence of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the thirteenth century, and its significance for the Templar order. The studies in this volume shed new light on diverse aspects of the site, including its cemetery and the surveys conducted there. Further chapters examine Cyprus during the thirteenth century, which under the Lusignan dynasty was an important centre of Latin settlement in the East, and a major trade centre. These chapters present new contributions regarding the complex visual culture which developed on the island, the relation between different social groups, and settlement patterns. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of the medieval period, as well as those interested in the Crusades, archaeology, material culture, and art history.

Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century

Author : Gil Fishhof
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429515715
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century written by Gil Fishhof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century sheds new light on formerly less explored aspects of the crusading movement and the Latin East during the thirteenth century. In commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the construction of 'Atlit Castle, a significant section of this volume is dedicated to the castle, which was one of the most impressive built in the Latin East. Scholarly debate has centred on the reasons behind the construction of the castle, its role in the defence of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the thirteenth century, and its significance for the Templar order. The studies in this volume shed new light on diverse aspects of the site, including its cemetery and the surveys conducted there. Further chapters examine Cyprus during the thirteenth century, which under the Lusignan dynasty was an important centre of Latin settlement in the East, and a major trade centre. These chapters present new contributions regarding the complex visual culture which developed on the island, the relation between different social groups, and settlement patterns. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of the medieval period, as well as those interested in the Crusades, archaeology, material culture, and art history.

Crusading and the Crusader States

Author : Andrew Jotischky
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780582418516
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Crusading and the Crusader States written by Andrew Jotischky and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crusading as a subject has expanded in recent years to include new fields of enquiry. This book examines how crusading historiography includes new areas and new definitions, focusing on two fundamental issues in current writing: why people went on crusades and what forms the western settlement in the Near East took. Crusading and the Crusader States explains how the idea of holy wars came into being and why they took the form that they did - a clash between western and Islamic societies that dominated the Middle Ages.

Finance and the Crusades

Author : Daniel Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000469875
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Finance and the Crusades written by Daniel Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the financial aspects of crusading in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Taking the kingdom of England as a case study, it explores a variety of themes, such as how much crusades cost, how they were financed, how funds were transferred to the East and how crusaders fared financially after their return. Its fundamental argument, in contrast with current historiography, is that it was the "private" fundraising of individuals – not the "public" fundraising of the Crown and the Church – that constituted the life-blood of the crusade movement in the period under consideration. Indeed, it is likely that the crusades were only able to remain central to the religious and political life of England, and indeed western Christendom, because participants, and those in their connection, continued to be willing to sacrifice their own financial wellbeing for the interests of the Holy Land.

The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries

Author : James Joseph Walsh
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 146552049X
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries written by James Joseph Walsh and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the epochs of effort after a new life, that of the age of Aquinas, Roger Bacon, St. Francis, St. Louis, Giotto, and Dante is the most purely spiritual, the most really constructive, and indeed the most truly philosophic. … The whole thirteenth century is crowded with creative forces in philosophy, art, poetry, and statesmanship as rich as those of the humanist Renaissance. And if we are accustomed to look on them as so much more limited and rude it is because we forget how very few and poor were their resources and their instruments. In creative genius Giotto is the peer, if not the superior of Raphael. Dante had all the qualities of his three chief successors and very much more besides. It is a tenable view that in inventive fertility and in imaginative range, those vast composite creations—the Cathedrals of the Thirteenth Century, in all their wealth of architectural statuary, painted glass, enamels, embroideries, and inexhaustible decorative work may be set beside the entire painting of the sixteenth century. Albert and Aquinas, in philosophic range, had no peer until we come down to Descartes, nor was Roger Bacon surpassed in versatile audacity of genius and in true encyclopaedic grasp by any thinker between him and his namesake the Chancellor. In statesmanship and all the qualities of the born leader of men we can only match the great chiefs of the Thirteenth Century by comparing them with the greatest names three or even four centuries later. Now this great century, the last of the true Middle Ages, which as it drew to its own end gave birth to Modern Society, has a special character of its own, a character that gives it an abiding and enchanting interest. We find in it a harmony of power, a universality of endowment, a glow, an aspiring ambition and confidence such as we never find in later centuries, at least so generally and so permanently diffused. … The Thirteenth Century was an era of no special character. It was in nothing one-sided and in nothing discordant. It had great thinkers, great rulers, great teachers, great poets, great artists, great moralists, and great workmen. It could not be called the material age, the devotional age, the political age, or the poetic age in any special degree. It was equally poetic, political, industrial, artistic, practical, intellectual, and devotional. And these qualities acted in harmony on a uniform conception of life with a real symmetry of purpose.

Medieval Rural Settlements in the Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Centuries)

Author : Balázs Major
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784912050
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Rural Settlements in the Syrian Coastal Region (12th and 13th Centuries) written by Balázs Major and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coastal region in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic

Author : Aleksander Pluskowski
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503551333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic by : Aleksander Pluskowski

Download or read book Ecologies of Crusading, Colonization, and Religious Conversion in the Medieval Baltic written by Aleksander Pluskowski and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the pagan tribal groups of the Eastern Baltic, whose territories were conquered and reorganized into Christian states run by the Teutonic Order, bishops, and their cathedral chapters. Castles were built, towns established, and colonists encouraged to settle under the leadership of the new Christian theocracy. But the changes introduced alongside Christianity not only transformed the culture of eastern Baltic societies, but also had a profound and--for the Baltic tribes, who saw many aspects of the natural world as sacred--deeply significant impact on the local environment. This seminal period in the environmental history of north-eastern Europe has been the focus of the ERC-funded research programme, 'The Ecology of Crusading', which explored the physical and conceptual ecological transformations associated with warfare, colonization, and religious conversion. This second Terra Sacra volume draws together a series of case-studies on Livonia and Prussia that provide a unique snapshot of recent research into environmental change during the Baltic Crusades and also explore long-term trends in landscape organization and environmental exploitation. The volume covers six key themes: building-construction in the conquered territories; food supply to the houses of the Teutonic Order; life in the multi-cultural towns of the eastern Baltic; transforming the physical landscape; transforming the spiritual landscape; and the Baltic Ordensland in its regional context. It forms a companion to Environment, Colonization, and the Baltic Crusader States: Terra Sacra I.

The Routledge Companion to the Crusades

Author : Peter Lock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135131376
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Crusades written by Peter Lock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of facts, figures, maps, family trees, summaries of the major crusades and their historiography, the Routledge Companion to the Crusades spans a broad chronological range from the eleventh to the eighteenth century, and gives a chronological framework and context for modern research on the crusading movement. Not just a history of the Crusades, but an overview of the logistical, economic, social and biographical history, this is a core text for students of history and religious studies.

Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, C. 1100-C. 1300

Author : Andrew D. Buck
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277335
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Crusade, Settlement and Historical Writing in the Latin East and Latin West, C. 1100-C. 1300 written by Andrew D. Buck and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean was a crucial one for medieval historical writing. From the departure of the earliest crusading armies in 1096 to the Mamlūk conquest of the Latin states in the late thirteenth century, crusading activity, and the settlements it established and aimed to protect, generated a vast textual output, offering rich insights into the historiographical cultures of the Latin West and Latin East. However, modern scholarship on the crusades and the "crusader states" has tended to draw an artificial boundary between the two, even though medieval writers treated their histories as virtually indistinguishable. This volume places these spheres into dialogue with each other, looking at how individual crusading campaigns and the Frankish settlements in the eastern Mediterranean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.nean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.nean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.nean were depicted and remembered in the central Middle Ages. Its essays cover a geographical range that incorporates England, France, Germany, southern Italy and the Holy Land, and address such topics as gender, emotion, the natural world, crusading as an institution, origin myths, textual reception, forms of storytelling and historical genre. Bringing to the foreground neglected sources, methodologies, events and regions of textual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.ual production, the collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom.

The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714

Author : John France
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134196180
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 written by John France and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 is a fascinating and accessible survey that places the medieval Crusades in their European context, and examines, for the first time, their impact on European expansion. Taking a unique approach that focuses on the motivation behind the Crusades, John France chronologically examines the whole crusading movement, from the development of a ‘crusading impulse’ in the eleventh century through to an examination of the relationship between the Crusades and the imperialist imperatives of the early modern period. France provides a detailed examination of the first Crusade, the expansion and climax of crusading during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the failure and fragmentation of such practices in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Concluding with an assessment of the influence of the Crusades across history, and replete with illustrations, maps, timelines, guides for further reading, and a detailed list of rulers across Europe and the Muslim world, this study provides students with an essential guide to a central aspect of medieval history.

The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374

Author : Peter W. Edbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458375
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom of Cyprus and the Crusades, 1191-1374 written by Peter W. Edbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contribution to the history of the Crusades in the Levant, this text is a scholarly study of medieval Cyprus.

The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade

Author : Aleksander Pluskowski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136162801
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade by : Aleksander Pluskowski

Download or read book The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade written by Aleksander Pluskowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusade against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order which lasted into the 16th century. It provides the first synthesis of the material culture of a unique crusading society created in the south-eastern Baltic region over the course of the 13th century. It encompasses the full range of archaeological data, from standing buildings through to artefacts and ecofacts, integrated with written and artistic sources. The work is sub-divided into broadly chronological themes, beginning with a historical outline, exploring the settlements, castles, towns and landscapes of the Teutonic Order’s theocratic state and concluding with the role of the reconstructed and ruined monuments of medieval Prussia in the modern world in the context of modern Polish culture. This is the first work on the archaeology of medieval Prussia in any language, and is intended as a comprehensive introduction to a period and area of growing interest. This book represents an important contribution to promoting International awareness of the cultural heritage of the Baltic region, which has been rapidly increasing over the last few decades.

Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century

Author : Anti Selart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284753
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century written by Anti Selart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph by Anti Selart is the first comprehensive study available in English on the relations between northern crusaders and Rus'. Selart re-examines the central issues of this crucial period of establishing the medieval relations of the Catholic and Orthodox worlds like the Battle on the Ice (1242) and the role of Alexander Nevsky using the relevant source material of both “sides”. He also considers the wide context of the history of crusading and the whole Eastern and Northern Europe from Hungary and Poland to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden in 1180-1330. This monograph contests the existence of the constitutive religious conflict and extensive aggressive strategies in the region – the ideas which had played a central role in modern historiography and ideology.

Letters from the East

Author : Malcolm Barber
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472413938
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Letters from the East written by Malcolm Barber and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. They convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening, and show us the feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. Some of the letters translated here are famous, others hardly known, but all offer unique insight into the minds of those who took part in the crusading movement.

Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross

Author : Peter Lock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317100603
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross written by Peter Lock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full translation of Marino Sanudo Torsello's Secreta fidelium Crucis to be made into English. The work itself is a piece of crusading propaganda following the fall of Acre in 1291, written between 1300 and 1321, but it includes much of historical relevance along with interesting observations on the early history of Jerusalem and the Crusader Kingdom. The translation is based upon the text edited by Jacques Bongars in 1611. There is an introduction that contextualises the book, its author, his sources and his audience. The notes provide essential information to clarify internal textual references and allusions, as well as the role of Biblical references in Sanudo's grand design. The index is designed to make this detailed text usable and accessible. In this, his major work, Sanudo advocated the conquest of Egypt as the means to regain Jerusalem for the Latins and worked through his points with considerable detail alongside references to 13th-century Mediterranean history, especially involving Louis IX of France and Charles of Anjou, king of Naples. Books I and II give considerable detailed discussion of the concept, plan and costs of his proposed crusade. Book III provides an outline history of the crusades and the crusader states. It is derived from a wide-reading of other sources especially of William of Tyre, and, for events after 1184 on the Eracles, the letters of James of Vitry, and Sanudo's own experiences in the east. Throughout, the work contains a staggering amount of cartographical, ethnographical, geographical, and nautical information, as well as numerous unique insights into historical events and personalities of the late 13th century, not only in Outremer but in Western Europe.

The World of the Crusades

Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300217390
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Crusades written by Christopher Tyerman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects, from weaponry and military technology to carpentry and shipping, conditioned them. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the material trappings of crusading wars and the objects that memorialized them, in architecture, sculpture, jewelry, painting, and manuscripts. Christopher Tyerman’s incorporation of the physical and visual remains of crusading enriches our understanding of how the crusaders themselves articulated their mission, how they viewed their place in the world, and how they related to the cultures they derived from and preyed upon. A note to readers: the grey-shaded pages throughout this volume look at the Crusades in detail, exploring individual themes such as food and drink, medicine, weapons and women’s role in the Crusades. These short essays are interspersed throughout the chapters and the main text will continue after each one. For instance, ‘Taking the Cross’ runs from pages 4 to 7, and the Introduction continues on p. 8.