The Second Crusade
Subtitle: Scope and Consequences
Contributors: Jonathan Phillips (Editor); Martin Hoch (Editor)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: February 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719057106
Subjects: World history: c 500 to C 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244; History - General History; World - General; History: World; Middle East; Western Continental Europe; Middle East - General; History / General; History; Crusades; Jerusalem; Papacy; Second, 1147-1149
First sentence: Giles Constable's seminal article 'The Second Crusade as seen by Contemporaries' (1953) suggests that the crusading expeditions to the Levant, the Baltic and the Iberian peninsula in 1147-49 all formed part of a single enterprise which served to extend the borders of Christianity.