Walter the Chancellor’s The Antiochene Wars

Walter the Chancellor’s The Antiochene Wars
Author: Susan B. Edgington
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2022-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351874004

Walter the Chancellor's vivid first-hand account of the wars between the Muslims and the principality of Antioch in the early 12th century describes a less well-known period in the history of the Crusades, and provides a useful counterpart to the usual focus on Jerusalem. It is here presented for the first time in English, along with a selection of comparative sources and an important introduction assessing the work's place in the historiography of the Crusader states, and analysing the military campaigns it details. As a highly-placed Antiochene official, Walter was able to write the most authoritative account of the principality's fortunes and internal workings, and his book also sheds light on the relationship between Latin settlement in the Levant and contemporary Western perceptions of Islam and Eastern Christianity.

The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130

The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130
Author: Thomas S. Asbridge
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780851156613

The first major study of the principality of Antioch, reasserting its significance and challenging the dominance of Jerusalem in modern crusading historiography.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200)

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 3 (1050-1200)
Author: David Thomas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 819
Release: 2011-03-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004195157

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 3 (CMR3) is a history of all the works on Christian-Muslim relations from 1050 to 1200. It comprises introductory essays and over one hundred entries containing descriptions, assessments and comprehensive bibliographical details of individual works.

The Crusades

The Crusades
Author: Thomas Asbridge
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1849837708

'Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The Times A superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the two hundred years that followed this First Crusade, Islam and the West fought for dominion of the Holy Land, clashing in a succession of chillingly brutal wars, both firm in the belief that they were at God's work. The Crusades tells the story of this epic struggle from the perspective of both Christians and Muslims, reconstructing the experiences and attitudes of those on either side of the conflict. Mixing pulsing narrative and piercing insight, it exposes the full horror, passion and barbaric grandeur of the crusading era. ‘A dramatic and powerful look at both sides of the story’ Sunday Times 'A compelling narrative... A masterful conclusion' Observer

War and Violence in the Western Sources for the First Crusade

War and Violence in the Western Sources for the First Crusade
Author: Sini Kangas
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004693599

Medieval Westerners accepted killing for religion and praised the outcome of the First Crusade (1096-1099). At the same time, their attitude to violence was ambivalent. Theologians shunned the practical use of force, while the warrior aristocracy valued the capacity for physical destruction. In the absence of theological doctrine on the practicalities of holy warfare, the first crusaders draw their ideas about killing from diverse and sometimes conflicting traditions. This book answers questions about how religious violence was described, justified and remembered in the sources of the First Crusade. What was the relation between faith, convention, and action?

Crusades

Crusades
Author: Benjamin Z. Kedar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351985329

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 appears in both print and online editions.

Defending the City of God

Defending the City of God
Author: Sharan Newman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 113727865X

"A fresh and highly accessible history of the Holy Lands during the Middle Ages, revealing a rich and diverse culture and the fight to save Jerusalem from the Crusaders"--

Syria in Crusader Times

Syria in Crusader Times
Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474429726

Presenting numerous interconnected insights into life in Greater Syria in the twelfth century, this book covers a wide range of themes relating to Crusader-Muslim relations. Some chapters deal with various literary sources, including little-known Crusader chronicles, a jihad treatise, a lost Muslim history of the Franks, biographies, letters and poems. Other chapters look at material culture, from coins to urban development, internal relations between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims and between Crusader and Oriental Christians, and the role of the Turkmen. New insights into the career of Saladin are revealed, for example through the work of a little-known propagandist at his court, and Saladin's use of gift-giving for political purposes, as well as neglected aspects of the rule of his family dynasty, the Ayyubids, which succeeded him. Special attention is paid to the Christians residing in the Middle East, from Italians to Melkites and Armenians.

Journal of Medieval Military History

Journal of Medieval Military History
Author: Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1843839369

Highlights "the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field". History 95 (2010) The latest collection of the most up-to-date research on matters of medieval military history contains a remarkable geographical range, extending from Spain and Britain to the southern steppe lands, by way of Scandinavia, Byzantium, and the Crusader States. At one end of the timescale is a study of population in the later Roman Empire and at the other the Hundred Years War, touching on every century in between. Topics include the hardware of war, the social origins of soldiers, considerations of individual battles, and words for weapons in Old Norse literature. Contributors: Bernard S. Bachrach, Gary Baker, Michael Ehrlich, Nicholas A. Gribit, Nicolaos S. Kanellopoulos, Mollie M. Madden, Kenneth J. McMullen, Craig M. Nakashian, Mamuka Tsurtsumia, Andrew L.J. Villalon

God's War

God's War
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 1064
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674023871

Tyerman gives a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. Drawing on all of the most recent scholarship, and told with great verve and authority, "God's War" is the definitive account of a fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.