The First Crusade
Author | : August Charles Krey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Crusades |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : August Charles Krey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Crusades |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Susan Wise Bauer |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2010-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393078175 |
A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world. In her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new justification for their power, and they turned to divine truth or grace to justify political and military action. Right began to replace might as the engine of empire. Not just Christianity and Islam but also the religions of the Persians, the Germans, and the Mayas were pressed into the service of the state. Even Buddhism and Confucianism became tools for nation building. This phenomenon—stretching from the Americas all the way to Japan—changed religion, but it also changed the state. The History of the Medieval World is a true world history, linking the great conflicts of Europe to the titanic struggles for power in India and Asia. In its pages, El Cid and Guanggaeto, Julian the Apostate and the Brilliant Emperor, Charles the Hammer and Krum the Bulgarian stand side by side. From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the Song Dynasty, from the mission of Muhammad to the crowning of Charlemagne, from the sacred wars of India to the establishment of the Knights Templar, this erudite book tells the fascinating, often violent story of kings, generals, and the peoples they ruled.
Author | : Jonathan Riley-Smith |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2009-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812220766 |
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 | : Steven Runciman |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1987-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521347716 |
Sir Steven Runciman examines the Frankish states to the re-conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin.
Author | : Elizabeth Lapina |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271073136 |
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 | : Kenneth Meyer Setton |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299048341 |
The six volumes of A History of the Crusades will stand as the definitive history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Moslem, and Christian perspectives, and containing a wealth of information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world.
Author | : Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826467263 |
""Riley-Smith marshals his case lucidly.""--Times Literary Supplement ""Riley-Smith's analysis of the formation of Crusading ideology offers a provocative new interpretation. . . . [His] scholarship is impeccable, and he supports his contentions with
Author | : Marshall W. Baldwin |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 728 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 151281864X |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author | : Jean Richard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1999-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521625661 |
A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the 'holy places' of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291. This is the ideal introductory textbook for all students of the crusades. Professor Richard considers the consequences of the crusades, such as the establishment of the Latin east, and its organisation into a group of feudal states, as well as crusading contacts with the Muslim world, eastern Christians, Byzantines, and Mongols. Also considered are the organisation of expeditions, the financing of such expeditionary forces, and the organisation of operations and supply. Jean Richard is one of the world's great crusader historians and this work, the distillation of over forty years' research and contemplation, is the only one of its kind in English.