The Crusades
Subtitle: a history of armed pilgrimage and holy war
By: Geoffrey Hindley.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Crusades.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 288-291) and index.
First published in the UK by Constable in 2003.
Table of contents: 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 ideal; title: Epilogue : the aftermath; title: Appendix I: the Popes, from Gregory VII to Sixtus V; title: Appendix II: Rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem; title: Appendix III: Ayyubid dynasty; title: rulers of Egypt; title: Appendix IV: Byzantine Emperors at the time of the first Crusades; title: Appendix V: Ottoman princes and sultans 1300-1566; title: Appendix VI: Western emperors 1056-1555.