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Author : Beth Catherine Spacey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Miracles and Marvels in Latin Narrative Histories of the Crusades, 1095-1204 written by Beth Catherine Spacey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beth C. Spacey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783275189
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Miraculous and the Writing of Crusade Narrative written by Beth C. Spacey and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors.
Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042975762X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Crusades written by Benjamin Z. Kedar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095–1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages – narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin. The editors are Benjamin Z. Kedar, Hebrew University, Israel; Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Nikolaos G. Chrissis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.
Author : Benjamin Z. Kedar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351389041
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Crusades written by Benjamin Z. Kedar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades also incorporates the Society's Bulletin.
Author : E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Crusades written by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book "The Story of the Crusades," E. M. Wilmot-Buxton retells and describes the most famous events from the crusades. This book revolves around the rise of Islam to the adventures of Bohemond and Richard the Lionheart to the ultimate fall of Constantinople. It is centered around faith, belief, righteousness, and other virtues to embrace.
Author : Dan Jones
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143108972
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Crusaders written by Dan Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 481 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 : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245459
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
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.
Author : Nandini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110861681X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Travel Writing written by Nandini Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108340814
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Middle Ages in 50 Objects written by Elina Gertsman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. Each section is organized chronologically, and every object is accompanied by a penetrating essay that focuses on its visual and cultural significance within the wider context in which the object was made and used. Spot maps add yet another way to visualize and consider the significance of the objects and the history that they reveal. Lavishly illustrated, this is an appealing and original guide to the cultural history of the Middle Ages.
Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248857
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Accursed Tower written by Roger Crowley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin.The ‘Accursed Tower’ was the focal point of this siege. As the last garrison of the Crusader defences, it came to symbolise the disintegration of the old world and the rise of a new era of Islamic jihad. Crowley’s narrative is based on forensic research, drawing heavily on little known first hand sources, both Christian and Arabic. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of a pivotal moment in world history.
Author : John Mandeville
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1647980542
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (479 download)
Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is the chronicle of the alleged Sir John Mandeville, an explorer. His travels were first published in the late 14th century, and influenced many subsequent explorers such as Christopher Columbus.
Author : Sir John Mandeville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Book of John Mandeville written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of John Mandeville has tended to be neglected by modern teachers and scholars, yet this intriguing and copious work has much to offer the student of medieval literature, history, and culture. [It] was a contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims, and Brahmins. The Book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages: not only Latin, French, German, English, and Italian, but also Czech, Danish, and Irish. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. Chaucer borrowed from it, as did the Gawain-poet in the Middle English Cleanness, and its popularity continued long after the Middle Ages.
Author : Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812220766
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading written by Jonathan Riley-Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic work, presented here with a new introduction, one of the world's most renowned crusade historians approaches this central topic of medieval history with freshness and impeccable research.
Author : G. Dickson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230592988
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Children's Crusade written by G. Dickson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Children's Crusade was possibly the most extraordinary event in the history of the crusades. The first modern study in English of this popular crusade sheds new light on its history and offers new perspectives on its supposedly dismal outcome. Its richly re-imagined history and mythistory is explored from the thirteenth century to present day.
Author : Christopher MacEvitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812202694
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Crusades and the Christian World of the East written by Christopher MacEvitt and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate Christian communities: Greek and Syrian Orthodox, Armenians, and other sects with sharp doctrinal differences. How did these disparate groups live together under Frankish rule? In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed little interest in such differences. Franks intermarried with local Christians and shared shrines and churches, but they did not hesitate to use military force against Christian communities. Rough tolerance was unlike other medieval modes of dealing with religious difference, and MacEvitt illuminates the factors that led to this striking divergence. "It is commonplace to discuss the diversity of the Middle East in terms of Muslims, Jews, and Christians," MacEvitt writes, "yet even this simplifies its religious complexity." While most crusade history has focused on Christian-Muslim encounters, MacEvitt offers an often surprising account by examining the intersection of the Middle Eastern and Frankish Christian worlds during the century of the First Crusade.
Author : Richard W. Bulliet
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231127979
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization written by Richard W. Bulliet and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-22 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'clash of civilisations' so often talked about in connection with relations between the West and Arab nations is, argues Richard Bulliet, no more than dangerous sophistry based on misconceptions in American government. He sets out the common ground between Islam and Christianity.
Author : Ronnie Ellenblum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521871
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem written by Ronnie Ellenblum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on an unprecedented archaeological survey of more than two hundred Frankish rural sites.
