Byzantium And The Crusades
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Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852855017 |
The first great city to which the Crusaders came in 1089 was not Jerusalem but Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Almost as much as Jerusalem itself, Constantinople was the key to the foundation, survival and ultimate eclipse of the crusading kingdom.
Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780937369 |
This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the time of the Crusades. It argues that one of the main keys to Byzantine interaction with Western Europe, the Crusades and the crusader states can be found in the nature of the Byzantine Empire and the ideology which underpinned it, rather than in any generalised hostility between the peoples. Taking recent scholarship into account, this new edition includes an updated notes section and bibliography, as well as significant additions to the text: - New material on the role of religious differences after 1100 - A detailed discussion of economic, social and religious changes that took place in 12th-century Byzantine relations with the west - In-depth coverage of Byzantium and the Crusades during the 13th century - New maps, illustrations, genealogical tables and a timeline of key dates Byzantium and the Crusades is an important contribution to the historiography by a major scholar in the field that should be read by anyone interested in Byzantine and crusader history.
Author | : Angeliki E. Laiou |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780884022770 |
The essays in this volume demonstrate that on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean there were rich, variegated, and important phenomena associated with the Crusades, and that a full understanding of the significance of the movement and its impact on both the East and West must take these phenomena into account.
Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2014-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780938314 |
A new, fully-revised edition of a book that provides a thorough, chronological exploration of Byzantium and the outlook of its rulers during the Crusades era.
Author | : Ralph-Johannes Lilie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
He traces the actions of Byzantium Emperors in the twelfth century as they sought to keep control of the crusading armies within their territories and to maintain their positions with respect to the west, and shows how mutual suspicion and attempts at co-operation ended in downright emnity.
Author | : Geoffrey Regan |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781403961518 |
Identifies the beginnings of the crusades in the seventh century, during which Persia sought to conquer the Byzantine Empire, for which the emperor Heraclius, whose career coincided with the life of the prophet Mohammed, used Christian propaganda to overcome Islam. 10,000 first printing.
Author | : Peter Frankopan |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674064992 |
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II’s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade’s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade’s untold history.
Author | : Annemarie Weyl Carr |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Professor Carr is concerned here with the devotional arts of the Byzantine world in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. The first set of studies deals with groups of illuminated manuscripts of the twelfth century, mostly connected with the Eastern Mediterranean, while the second focuses directly on Cyprus and its rich Orthodox visual heritage in the later Middle Ages. As Byzantium's strongest bridgehead to the Crusades and its heir in the Levantine balance of power, the island of Cyprus retains an exceptionally rich legacy of Byzantine culture and artifacts. At the same time, as the seat of the most enduring Crusader state, it offers unparalleled testimony to the interplay of Greek and Latin cultural traditions as they accommodated and resisted one another under the pressure of Mamluk, Mongol, and Ottoman expansion.
Author | : David Nicolle |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2011-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849088217 |
The Fourth Crusade was the first, and most famous of the 'diverted' Crusades, which saw the Crusade diverted from its original target, Ayyubi Egypt, to attack the Christian city of Zadar in modern Croatia instead, an attack that was little more than a mercenary action to repay the Venetians for their provision of a fleet to the Crusaders. This book examines the combined action and sacking of the city of Zara, which saw the Crusaders temporarily excommunicated by the Pope. It goes on to evaluate how the influence of the Venetians prompted an attack on Constantinople, analyses the siege that followed and describes the naval assault and sacking of the city which saw the Crusaders place Count Baldwin of Flanders on the Byzantine throne.
Author | : Jonathan Harris |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2017-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474254675 |
Jonathan Harris' new edition of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Constantinople, provides an updated and extended introduction to the history of Byzantium and its capital city. Accessible and engaging, the book breaks new ground by exploring Constantinople's mystical dimensions and examining the relationship between the spiritual and political in the city. This second edition includes a range of new material, such as: * Historiographical updates reflecting recently published work in the field * Detailed coverage of archaeological developments relating to Byzantine Constantinople * Extra chapters on the 14th century and social 'outsiders' in the city * More on the city as a centre of learning; the development of Galata/Pera; charitable hospitals; religious processions and festivals; the lives of ordinary people; and the Crusades * Source translation textboxes, new maps and images, a timeline and a list of emperors It is an important volume for anyone wanting to know more about the history of the Byzantine Empire.