The First Crusade
Subtitle: the call from the East
By: Peter Frankopan
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780674059948
Subjects: Crusades; History
Description: 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 in the person of Alexios I Komnenos of Constantinople, emperor of the Christain Byzantine Empire.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by the Bodley Head."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Europe in crisis; title: The recovery of Constantinople; title: Stability in the East; title: The collapse of Asia Minor; title: On the brink of disaster; title: The call from the East; title: The response of the west; title: To the imperial city; title: First encounters with the enemy; title: The struggle for the soul of the crusade; title: The crusade unravels; title: The consequences of the First Crusade.