How the Crusades changed history
By: Philip Daileader
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. History; Great courses (Compact disc)
Publisher: Example Product Manufacturer
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781598039795
Subjects: Crusades; Influence; Middle Ages; Church history
Description: Hundreds of years have passed since the last crusader knight laid down his sword, but the centuries of medieval warfare we collectively call the Crusades continue to hold powerful sway over our modern world and the tense conflicts between religions and entire civilizations. Just how powerful was the impact of the Crusades on the spiritual and political landscape of the medieval world?
Notes: Course no. 3931.

Includes bibliographical references.

Lectures given by Professor Philip Daileader, The College of William & Mary.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: What were the Crusades? -- -- 2.; title: Before the Crusades-deep background -- -- 3.; title: Before the Crusades-immediate circumstances -- -- 4.; title: The First Crusade and conquest of Jerusalem -- -- 5.; title: The rise of the Templars -- -- 6.; title: Defending the Crusader States, 1099-1144 -- -- 7.; title: The Second Crusade-false steps and failure -- -- 8.; title: Saladin-general and sultan -- -- 9.; title: The Third Crusade-we three kings -- -- 10.; title: The Fourth Crusade-conquest of Constantinople -- -- 11.; title: Crusades in Spain -- -- 12.; title: The Northern Crusades -- -- 13.; title: The children's and Albigensian Crusades -- -- 14.; title: Fifth and Sixth Crusades-tragedy and oddity -- -- 15.; title: Louis IX-the Crusader saint -- -- 16.; title: The Hohenstaufen and Shepherds' Crusades -- -- 17.; title: The fall-1291 -- -- 18.; title: The Crusades and their critics --; title: 19. War and travel-the experience of crusading -- -- 20.; title: Life in the Crusader East -- -- 21.; title: Cultural contact and exchange -- -- 22.; title: Crusade and mission -- -- 23.; title: The Crusades and the course of history, part 1 -- -- 24.; title: The Crusades and the course of history, part 2.