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God's war : a new history of the Crusades / Christopher Tyerman.

Van Pelt Library D157 .T89 2006
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Tyerman, Christopher
Contributor:
Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
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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