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God's war : a new history of the Crusades / Christopher Tyerman.
LIBRA D157 .T89 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tyerman, Christopher
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 1023 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Tyerman gives a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. Drawing on all of the most recent scholarship, and told with great verve and authority, "God's War" is the definitive account of a fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Europe and the Mediterranean 1
- The First Crusade
- 1 The Origins of Christian Holy War 27
- 2 The Summons to Jerusalem 58
- 3 The March to Constantinople 92
- 4 The Road to the Holy Sepulchre 124
- Frankish Outremer
- 5 The Foundation of Christian Outremer 167
- 6 The Latin States 185
- 7 East is East and East is West: Outremer in the Twelfth Century 212
- The Second Crusade
- 8 A New Path to Salvation? Western Christendom and Holy War 1100-1145 243
- 9 God's Bargain: Summoning the Second Crusade 268
- 10 'The Spirit of the Pilgrim God': Fighting the Second Crusade 304
- The Third Crusade
- 11 A Great Cause for Mourning': The Revival of Crusading and the Third Crusade 341
- 12 The Call of the Cross 375
- 13 To the Siege of Acre 402
- 14 The Palestine War 1191-2 448
- The Fourth Crusade
- 15 'Ehud's Sharpened Sword' 477
- 16 The Fourth Crusade: Preparations 501
- 17 The Fourth Crusade: Diversion 524
- The Expansion of Crusading
- 18 The Albigensian Crusades 1209-29 563
- 19 The Fifth Crusade 1213-21 606
- 20 Frontier Crusades 1: Conquest in Spain 650
- 21 Frontier Crusades 2: the Baltic and the North 674
- The Defence of Outremer
- 22 Survival and Decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the Thirteenth Century 715
- 23 The Defence of the Holy Land 1221-44 736
- 24 Louis IX and the Fall of Mainland Outremer 1244-91 770
- The Later Crusades
- 25 The Eastern Crusades in the Later Middle Ages 825
- 26 The Crusade and Christian Society in the Later Middle Ages 875
- Select List of Rulers 991.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 923-990) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0674023870
- OCLC:
- 71189881
- Publisher Number:
- 9780674023871
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