The First Crusade and the idea of crusading / Jonathan Riley-Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, 1938-2016

Series:

Middle Ages series

The Middle Ages series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades--First, 1096-1099.

Crusades.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

227 pages : maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Summary:

From the Publisher: Focusing on the inner workings of the First Crusade in a way that no other work has done, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading delves into the Crusade's organization, its finances, and the division of authority and responsibility among its leaders and their relationships with one another and with their subordinates. In the year 1095, Pope Urban II initiated what is known today as the First Crusade. His summons of the lay knights to the faith between 1095 and 1096 was Urban II's personal response to an appeal that had reached him from eastern Christians, the Pope referred to the struggle ahead as Christ's own war, to be fought in accordance with God's will and intentions. It was, too, called a war of liberation, designed to free the church and city of Jerusalem from oppression and pillage by the Muslims while liberating western Church from the errors into which it had fallen. In this classic work, presented here with a new introduction, one of the world's most renowned crusade historians approaches this central topic of medieval history with freshness and impeccable research. Through the vivid presentation of a wide range of European chronicles and charter collections, Jonathan Riley-Smith provides a striking illumination of crusader motives and responses and a thoughtful analysis of the mechanisms that made this expedition successful.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Pope Urban's message

2: Response of lay people

3: Conditions on the march

4: Ideas of the crusaders

5: Crusade of 1101

6: Theological refinement

Conclusion

Chronological table

List of abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Originally published: 1986.

"With a new introduction."

Includes bibliographical references: (pages [204]-213) and index.

ISBN:

9780812220766

0812220765

OCLC:

320800434