God's war
Subtitle: a new history of the Crusades
By: Christopher Tyerman.
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1023
ISBN-13: 9780713992205
Subjects: Crusades; Religious thought -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500; Europe -- History -- 476-1492
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The First Crusade. The origins of Christian holy war; title: The summons to Jerusalem; title: The march to Constantinople; title: The road to the Holy Sepulchre; title: Frankish Outremer. The foundation of Christian Outremer; title: The Latin states; title: East is east and east is west: Outremer in the twelfth century; title: The Second Crusade. A new path to salvation? Western Christendom and holy war, 1100-1145; title: God's bargain: summoning the Second Crusade; title: 'The spirit of the pilgrim God': fighting the Second Crusade; title: The Third Crusade. 'A great cause for mourning': the revival of crusading and the Third Crusade; title: The call of the Cross; title: To the siege of Acre; title: The Palestine War, 1191-2; title: The Fourth Crusade. 'Ehud's sharpened sword'; title: The Fourth Crusade: preparations; title: The Fourth Crusade: diversion; title: The expansion of crusading. The Albigensian Crusades, 1209-29; title: The Fifth Crusade, 1213-21; title: Frontier crusades 1: conquest in Spain; title: Frontier crusades 2: the Baltic and the North; title: The defence of Outremer. Survival and decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the thirteenth century; title: The defence of the Holy Land, 1221-44; title: Louis IX and the fall of mainland Outremer, 1244-91; title: The later crusades. The eastern crusades in the later Middle Ages; title: The crusade and Christian society in the later Middle Ages.