The History And Literature Of The Crusades
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: PART I. — HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: Mahomet. — Project of the Mahomedans. — Charlemagne. — Fall of the Empire. — Depressed State of the World. — Pilgrimages. — The Church and the Pope. — Pope Gregory VII. — Pope Urban II. — The First Crusade ... 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: The First Crusaders. — Peter the Hermit. — Arrival at Constantinople. — Quarrels among the Turks. — The Emir Bagi Sijan. — Siege of Antioch. — Sufferings of the Christians. — March upon Jerusalem. — Godfrey at Jerusalem. — Enthusiasm caused by the Crusades. — Poetry of the Crusades. — The Taking of the Cross at Clermont. — The Leaguer of Antioch. — The Gathering of the Paynim. — Godfrey of Bouillon ... 26; title: CHAPTER III.; title: Baldwin II. — Quarrels among the Princes. — Luxury of the Crusaders. — Zenki the Bloody Prince. — Reaction against the Church. — Troubled State of Europe. — St. Bernard. — The Second Crusade. —Wreck of the Second Crusade. — Noureddin. — Caution of Noureddin. — Rise of Saladin. — Saladin's Supremacy. — Decline of the Frankish States. — Banger of the Christians ... 63; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: The West rises to Arms. — Preparations in the East. — Siege of Ptolemaic — Frederick Barbarossa. — Death of Frederick Barbarossa. — Quarrels among the Princes. — Richard Coeur-de-Lion. — Negotiations. — Treaty with Saladin. — Fresh Outbreak of War. — Three Years' Armistice. — Failure of the Crusades. — Relations between the East and West. — Destruction of Eastern Civilization. — Triumph of Christianity ... 95; title: PART II. — LITERATURE OF THE CRUSADES.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: The Emperor Alexius. — Urban II. — Stephen of Blois. — Anselm of Ripemont. — Bohemund and Others. — Raymond of Agiles. — Gesta Fraiicorum.' — Tudebod. — Guibert, Abbot of Nogent. — Baldric, Archbishop of DoL — History of the Holy War. — Henry of Huntingdon. — Fulco, Gilo, and the Monk Robert. — Fulcher of Chartres. — Liziard of Tours. — William of Malmesbury. — Ordericus Vitalis. — Rodolph of Caen. — Ekkehard of Urach. — Dodechin ... 131; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Albert of Aix. — Probable Origin of the Narrative. — Profusion of Detail. — Discrepancies in his Narrative. — Richness of Invention. — No dependence on his Facts ... 206; title: CHAPTER III.; title: William of Tyre. — His Birth and Education. — General Character of the Work. — Character of William of Tyre. — Narrative of the First Crusade. — Its defective colouring. — William of Tyre a Mediator between Legend and History ... 255; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Epochs of a later Literature. — Scholasticus Oliver. — Vincent, Bishop of Beauvais. — The Luneburg Chronicle. — Matthew of West.- minster. — John of Ypres and others. — Platina. — Legends of the Crusades. — Ariosto. — Jacob de Vitry. — Matthew of Paris. — Petrarch. — The Treasurer Bernhard. — Archbishop Antonine of Florence. — Benedictus Accolti. — George Nauclerus. — Paulus Emilius of Verona. — Thomas Fuller. — Father Maimbourg. — Voltaire. — De Guignes. — Mailly. — Maier, Heller, and Haken. — Mills. — Lebeau. — St. Maurice. — Wilken. — Von Raumer. — Van Kampen. — Schlosser. — Michaud. — Capefigue ... 311