The Crusades
Subtitle: a history of armed pilgrimage and holy war
Edition: 1 Carroll edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: January 22, 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780786711055
Subjects: History - Military / War; History; History: World; Military - General; Ancient - General; Crusades
First sentence: A crusade, or a passagium generale, iter, voyage or Reise, just some of the words used by the participants themselves, was a military expedition sponsored and blessed by the Pope or his appointed agents, against enemies of the Christian Faith.
Table of contents: title: Maps; title: Chronology of jihad and crusade; title: Introduction : What's in a name?; title: Beginnings 632-1095; title: The First Crusade 1095-1099; title: Life and politics in a multicultural world; title: The Second Crusade : disaster on the road to Damascus; title: Turk and Kurd : heroes of Islam; title: Women and an alternative feudalism; title: Loss of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade 1187-1192; title: The Fourth Crusade : the Latin conquest of Constantinople and the scandal of Christendom; title: Heathen, heretics and children; title: Triumphs of an excommunicated emperor; title: The failures of a saint; title: Acre and after; title: Chivalry in action and Nicopolis "The last crusade"; title: The lingering decline of a flawed deal; title: Epilogue : the aftermath; title: Appendixes.; title: The Popes, from Gregory VII to Sixtus V; title: Rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem; title: Ayyubid dynasty : rulers of Egypt; title: Byzantine emperors at the time of the first Crusades; title: Ottoman princes and sultans 1300-1566; title: Western emperors 1056-1555