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The First Crusade : the call from the East / Peter Frankopan.
LIBRA D161.2 .F74 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frankopan, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades--First, 1096-1099.
- Crusades.
- Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1048-1118.
- Alexius.
- Byzantine Empire--History--Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
- Byzantine Empire.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- What if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome instead of Pope Urban II's instigation? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Frankopan reveals the First Crusade's untold history.
- Contents:
- Europe in crisis
- The recovery of Constantinople
- Stability in the East
- The collapse of Asia Minor
- On the brink of disaster
- The call from the East
- The response of the West
- To the Imperial City
- First encounters with the enemy
- The struggle for the soul of the crusade
- The crusade unravels
- The consequences of the First Crusade.
- Notes:
- "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by the Bodley Head."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674059948
- 0674059948
- OCLC:
- 758383633
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