The Crusades
By: Helen Nicholson.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world; Greenwood guides to historic events of the medieval world
Publisher: Hackett Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Indianapolis, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780872206199
Subjects: Crusades; Crusades -- Biography; Crusades -- Sources
Genres: Biography; Sources
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Definitions and motivations; title: Crusading expeditions to the Holy Land, 1095-1291; title: Expeditions in the Iberian Peninsula; title: The "crusade" in Northeastern Europe; title: Crusades against heretics : the Albigensian crusades and the Hussite crusades; title: Crusades against the Ottoman Turks in the Balkans; title: Conclusion: The impact of crusading on history; title: Baibars al-Bunduqdāri Boabdil (Abū 'Abd Allāh Muhammad XI); title: Bohemond "of Taranto"; title: Frederick II of Hohenstaufen; title: Gediminas of Lithuania; title: Giraude of Lavaur; title: Hermann von Salza; title: Innocent III; title: Jadwiga, Queen of Poland; title: James I, King of Aragon; title: John Hunyadi; title: John Žižka; title: Margaret of Beverley; title: Mehmed II; title: Saladin; title: Shajar al-Durr; title: Süleyman I "the Magnificent"; title: Letter of Count Stephen of Blois to his wife, Adela of Normandy, March 29, 1098; title: The Battle of Antioch, June 28, 1098; title: Brother Thierry of the Order of the Temple writes to all the Templars about the capture of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Saladin, July 1187; title: Saladin's secretary 'Imād al Dīn describes the assault on Jerusalem, September 20, 1187-October 2, 1187; title: Audita tremendi : Pope Gregory VII calls the Third Crusade; title: The Albigensian crusades : the massacre at Béziers, July 22, 1209, according to Caesarius of Heisterbach; title: The crusade of Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, 1228-29; title: King James I of Aragon plans an attack on the Muslim kingdom of Valencia : 1223; title: The Prussian crusade, 1260-61; title: The Douglas goes on crusade, 1329; title: The second crusade against the Hussites, September 1421; title: John Kaye's 1482 translation of Guillaume Caorsin's eyewitness account of the 1480 Siege of Rhodes by the Ottoman Turks; title: Glossary.