The crusade of King Conrad III of Germany : warfare and diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-48 / Jason T. Roche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roche, Jason T., author.

Series:

Outremer (Turnhout, Belgium) ; 2565-8794 v. 13.

Outremer : studies in the Crusades and the Latin East, 2565-8794 ; volume 13

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Konrad III, King of the Romans, 1093-1152.

Konrad.

Crusades--History.

Crusades.

History.

Latin Orient--History.

Latin Orient.

Middle East--Latin Orient.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

365 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Crusade of King Conrad the Third of Germany

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2021]

Language Note:

Includes quotations in Greek or Latin.

Summary:

'This book represents the first work of history dedicated to the crusade of King Conrad III of Germany (1146-48), emperor-elect of the Western Roman Empire and the most powerful man yet to assume the Cross. Even so, many of the people following the king on the Second Crusade were dead before they reached Constantinople and their ranks were devastated in Anatolia. Yet he went on to join with his fellow kings, Louis VII of France and Baldwin III of Jerusalem, in an attempt to capture the city of Damascus, the most powerful Muslim stronghold in southern Syria. Their unsuccessful attack lasted just five days. The recriminations for the many privations and problems the Germans suffered and encountered in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer were long and loud and have echoed down the ages: German indiscipline and poor leadership, Byzantine deceit and duplicity, and the self-serving interests of a Latin Jerusalemite nobility were and still are blamed for the various failings of the expedition. Scrutinising the original source evidence to an unparalled degree and employing a range of innovative, multi-disciplinary approaches, this work challenges the traditional and more recent historiography at every turn leading to a significantly clearer and fundamentally different understanding of the expedition's complex and much maligned history."--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Key Texts

Odo of Deuil's De profectione Ludovici VII in orientem

The Greek Texts

Verse Encomia and So-Called `Manganeios Prodromos'

The Epitomae of John Kinnamos's History

Niketas Choniates's Historia

ch. Two Prelude

The Staufer-Komnenian Alliance

Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux and King Conrad III of Germany

Conrad III's Iter: Royal Command and Princely Assent

ch. Three Practicalities

Composition of the Army

Numerical Size of the Army

Victualling on the Via Militaris in 1096 and 1147

ch. Four The Army in the Balkans and its Arrival at Constantinople

Branicevo to Naissos

Sardika to Philippopolis

Philippopolis

Philippopolis to Adrianople

Adrianople

Adrianople to Choirobakchoi

Choirobakchoi

The Arrival of the German Army at Constantinople

Violence at the Philopation

ch. Five The Army at Constantinople

Conrad III, Manuel I and the Stand-Off Outside Constantinople

Byzantine Reception Ceremonial

Louis VII of France and the French Barons: Fealty and Homage

Conrad III and Manuel I: Proud Inheritors of the Imperial Title of Old Rome

Pikridion and the Propaganda of Legitimisation

Pikridion and the Emperor's Ascendency over the Staufer Pretenders

ch. Six Twelfth-Century Western Anatolia

ch. Seven The Army at Nikaia

The Bosphoros to Nikaia

The Pohlde Annals and the Army's Arrival at Nikaia

The Route Between Nikaia and Ikonion

Victualling and Logistics

Otto of Freising and the Division of the Army

ch. Eight The Advance Towards Ikonion

Traditional Interpretations of the Failure to Advance on Ikonion

The Advance Beyond Dorylaion

The Collapse of the Campaign

`The mob on foot which was unable to follow the army'

`For every time our lines strove to charge them, the enemy broke ranks'

`These men of Belial'

ch. Nine Retreat, Detour and Return to Constantinople

At the request of our princes and barons, we led the army back to the sea'

The Dorylaion Turkmens and the Attacks on the German Army

The Retreat to Nikaia and Detour to Ephesos

Conrad Ill's Return to Constantinople and the Strengthening of the Staufer-Komnenian Alliance

ch. Ten The Crusade in Outremer

Raymond of Poitiers, Prince of Antioch

The Council of Palmarea and the Decision to Attack Damascus

Current Interpretations for the Failure of the Attack on Damascus

A Further Explanation for the Failure of the Attack on Damascus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-365).

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9782503530383

2503530389

OCLC:

1245838682

Publisher Number:

9782503530383