The Crusades

Author: Thomas Asbridge
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061981362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 790

Book Description
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.

The Glory of the Crusades

Author: Steve Weidenkopf
Publisher: Catholic Answers
ISBN: 9781941663004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description

A History of the Crusades

Author: Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299107444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744

Book Description
The six volumes of A History of the Crusades will stand as the definitive history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Moslem, and Christian perspectives, and containing a wealth of information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world.

The Crusades

Author: James F. McEaney
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590331804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Crusades A Bibliography With Indexes

The Crusades

Author: Thomas Andrew Archer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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The Concise History of the Crusades

Author: Thomas F. Madden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442231165
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
What is the relationship between the medieval crusades and the problems of the modern Middle East? Were the crusades the Christian equivalent of Muslim jihad? In this sweeping yet crisp history, Thomas F. Madden offers a brilliant and compelling narrative of the crusades and their contemporary relevance. Placing all of the major crusades within their social, economic, religious, and intellectual environments, Madden explores the uniquely medieval world that led untold thousands to leave their homes, families, and friends to march in Christ’s name to distant lands. From Palestine and Europe's farthest reaches, each crusade is recounted in a clear, concise narrative. The author gives special attention as well to the crusades’ effects on the Islamic world and the Christian Byzantine East.

The Crusades [4 volumes]

Author: Alan V. Murray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576078639
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1550

Book Description
The first multivolume encyclopedia to document the history of one of the most influential religious movements of the Middle Ages—the Crusades. The Crusades: An Encyclopedia surveys all aspects of the crusading movement from its origins in the 11th century to its decline in the 16th century. Unlike other works, which focus on the eastern Mediterranean region, this expansive four-volume encyclopedia also includes the struggle of Christendom against its enemies in Iberia, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region, and also covers the military orders, crusades against fellow Christians, heretics, and more. This work includes comprehensive entries on personalities such as Godfrey of Bouillon, who refused the title "King of Jerusalem," and St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who tore up his own clothing to make symbols of the cross for crusaders, as well as key events, countries, places, and themes that shed light on everything from the propaganda that inspired crusading warriors to the ways in which they fought. Special coverage of topics such as taxation, pilgrimage, warfare, chivalry, and religious orders give readers an appreciation of the multifaceted nature of these "holy wars."

What Were the Crusades?

Author: Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137013923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.

A History of the Crusades

Author: Kenneth M. Setton
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299048440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 908

The Crusades

Author: Carole Hillenbrand
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415929141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726

Book Description
This comprehensive work of cultural history gives us something we have never had: a view of the Crusades as seen through Muslim eyes. With breathtaking command of medieval Muslim sources as well as the vast literature on medieval European and Muslim culture, Carole Hillenbrand has produced a book that shows not only how the Crusades were perceived by the Muslims, but how the Crusades affected the Muslim world - militarily, culturally, and psychologically. As the author demonstrates, that influence continues now, centuries after the events. In The Crusades the reader discovers how the Muslims reacted to the Franks, and how Muslim populations were displaced, the ensuing period of jihad, the careers of Nur al-Din and Saladin, and the interpenetration of Muslim and Christian cultures. Stereotypes of the Franks in Muslim documents offer a fascinating counter to Western views of the infidel of legend. For readers interested in the Middle Ages, military history, the history of religion, and postcolonial studies, The Crusades opens a window onto a conflict we have only viewed from one side. The Crusades is richly illustrated, with eighteen color plates and over five hundred line drawings and black and white photographs.