The crusades in 100 objects : the great campaigns of the medieval world / James Waterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waterson, James, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades.

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Antiquities.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Africa, North--Antiquities.

Africa, North.

North Africa.

Asia--Antiquities.

Asia.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Crusades in one hundred objects

Crusades in a hundred objects

Place of Publication:

Barnsley : Frontline Books, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Great Mosque of Cordoba, eighth to tenth century

2. Carved Ivory Oliphant of the Fatimid Caliphate. Sicily, eleventh century

3. Turkish Composite Bows, created by twentieth-century master craftsmen

4. The Mausoleum of Sultan Sanjar, Merv, Turkmenistan, eleventh century

5. The Murder of Nizam al-Mulk from a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript of the Jami al-Tawarikh, the Compendium of Chronicles or World History of Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. Topkapi Palace Museum

6. Hagia Sophia, and the Grave of Dandolo, Istanbul

7. The Temple Mount viewed from the Mount of Olives

8. The Kiss of Peace depicted in a relief sculpture in the tympanum of the church of Anzy-le-Duc, Saone-et-Loire, Burgundy. Probably eleventh century

9. The Bayeux Tapestry showing Duke William mustering and leading a charge of his Knights, eleventh century

10. William Marshal at a Joust unhorses Baldwin Guisnes, who survives the bout thanks to his chain-mail armour. From the Historia Major of Matthew Paris, c. thirteenth century

11. The Staronova Synagoga, Europe's Oldest Active Synagogue. Josefov, Prague, Completed c. 1270

12. Trajan's Column, Rome, showing Roman siege artillery, 113-117

13. Brass Pen Box showing scenes of Hunting and Falconry. Mamluk Period Syria, probably thirteenth century

14. The Catapulting of Ibrahim into the Fire in Edessa. Page from an unidentified Ottoman manuscript c. 1600

15. Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion and the piercing of Christ's Flank by Longinus' Lance. Germany, Lower Rhine Valley, eleventh century

16. Jet and Ivory Chess Pieces from the Western Islamic World, ninth to eleventh century

17. The city of Maarat al-Numan's destroyed mosques following its uprising and subsequent bombardment by Syrian pro-government forces in late 2012

18. Pisa Cathedral and the Camposanto, eleventh century

19. Erminia tends to Tancredi's wounds, Alessando Turchi, c. 1630

20. Pilgrims at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 2019

21. A Fatimid Armlet with Kufic script, probably Syrian, 909-1171

22. Astrolabes from Al-Andalus, 1050-1080

23. The Throne of Charlemagne. Palatine Chapel, Aachen. c. 790

24. A Berber Warrior of the late nineteenth century

25. Turkish Archers' Thumb Rings, Topkapi Saray Palace, fifteenth to sixteenth century

26. Crak De Chevaliers, Syria, twelfth century

27. Karak Castle, Jordan, twelfth century

28. The Great Seal of the Grand Masters of the Knights Templar, showing the order's symbol of two knights on one horse, c. 1158

29. The Walls of Malta, sixteenth century

30. Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt, the Grand Master of the Knights of Saint John, Caravaggio. c. 1607

31. The Minbar. These examples are from the late medieval period

32. The Great Mosque of Damascus. c. 705

33. The Mantle of Roger II of Sicily, with Islamic Motifs, probably produced in Cairo. c. 1133-1134

34. The Assassins' Creed Game and Media, twentieth to twenty-first century

35. The Arabian Horse. Timeless

36. A Chalice carved from Rock Crystal. Fatimid workmanship with later Parisian mounting, c. 1100 and 1225-1250

37. The Great Mosque of al-Nufi in Mosul before and after its destruction by the Islamic State, late twelfth century and 2017

38. The Arsenal of Venice, twelfth to fifteenth century

39. A Reliquary Casket made from Fatimid rock crystal plaques, c. 1200

40. A Damascus Sword Maker. 'Whose swords were once considered the finest in the world', c. 1900

41. Greek Fire in the Codex Gnecus Matritensis Ioannis Skyllitzes, twelfth century

42. A Writing Case from the Jazira, with plaques showing the planets in character, thirteenth century

43. The Ivory Cover of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem's Psalter, c. 1135

44. Counterweight Trebuchets, an invention of the early twelfth century

45. Camels carrying Projectile Weapons in Afghanistan, c. 1988

46. Coats of Arms, Cathedral of Saint Barbara, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic, fourteenth to nineteenth century

47. Details from Turkish Bows of the type that destroyed the armies of the Second Crusade, sixteenth-century examples

48. The Battle of Inab, by the fifteenth-century miniature painter, Jean Colombe

49. Prester John in a Few of his Many Manifestations, from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries

50. The Douane, Dogana, and Customs Post, an idea, for good or ill, taken from the Diwan of the Arabs to Europe and beyond during the Crusades

51. Al-Azhar Mosque, Cairo. c. 970

52. The City of Alexandria

53. A Polo Game: an Illustration from the Divan of Mir Alishir Naval, Iran, sixteenth century

54. Yemen, Saladin's bolthole, should all his plans come to nothing

55. Saladin remains a potent icon for unity and resistance in the Arab world, despite the Sultan being a Kurd. This movie poster advertises The Search for Saladin

56. The Hakawati, a Traditional Syrian Teller of Arabic Stories and Reciter of Legends

57. The Assassin Castle of Maysaf in Syria, twelfth century

58. Devalued Dinars: Crusader and Arabic coinage of the twelfth century, Iraqi banknotes of the twenty-first century

59. The city of Jeddah. Its merchants' houses reflected the city's wealth and the fact that it was, and is, the gateway to Islam's holiest cities

60. Poster for the Movie Saladin and the Crusaders, 1963 Often seen as a celebration of Colonel Nasser of Egypt, who wished, and failed, to replicate the Sultan's deeds

61. A Reliquary holding a piece of the True Cross, twelfth century

62. A Statue of Saladin celebrating the Sultan's victory at the Horns of Hattin.

63. Naptha Grenades, a Greek invention, honed to perfection by the Muslims

64. The Massacre at Acre. From the Chronicle Overseas Passages by the French against the Turks and other Saracens, attributed to Jean Colombe, fifteenth century

65. The Chertsey Abbey floor tiles of the thirteenth century. Said to depict Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in Combat

66. A Statue of Richard Couer De Lion from 1856, Houses of Parliament, London

67. Soap from Aleppo, a luxury enjoyed by Crusaders, and their ladies

68. The Two Tombs of Saladin in the Great Mosque of Damascus. The original twelfth-century wooden sarcophagus, and an early twentieth-century marble gift of dubious aesthetic value donated by Kaiser Wilhelm II

69. An Ayyubid-period incense burner with Christian iconography, a rare example of cultural exchange between the Crusader kingdoms and their Muslim adversaries

70. The Capella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily, twelfth century

71. The Four Horses of the Constantinople Hippodrome in their current home of the museum of the cathedral of San Marco, Venice, c. third century

72. The Basilica of Christ's Blood, Bruges, twelfth century

73. A Mamluk Bombard or Grenade, carrying remarkable engraving and artistry for what is essentially a bomb, thirteenth century

74. Modern-day Celebrations of Ponies and Bactrian Camels, the animals that helped to create the Mongol Empire

75. The Eleventh-Century Friday Mosque in Qazvin. Men, women and children were slaughtered in concentration camps that the Mongols set up outside Qazvin during their destruction of the Assassins Order. Even babes in their cradles were murdered

76. A Lustreware Plaque from an Iranian Ilkhanid mihrab c. 1300-1350 Vicious Mongol persecution of Islam had, by the turn of the century, been replaced by conversion

77. Mamluk Helmets, or possibly Ottoman copies made to revere the Dynasty that Defeated the Mongols

78. Banners of Mamluk Sultans, used to rally and to direct the best soldiers of the Middle Ages

79. The King of Jordan's Circassian Bodyguard. Distant blood brothers to the Mamluks of the Crusades era

80. Mamluk Emirs' Blazons on Buildings in Jerusalem, on Metalwork, on Cairo Window Grills and Textiles. Enduring signs of the dynasty's obsession with rank and power

81. The Crown of Thorns, originally housed in Saint Chapelle, Saint Louis's purpose-built repository for the holy relic.

Rescued from Notre Dame Cathedral during the blaze of 2019

82. Mamluk-Style Quivers, their wide mouths and large capacity enabled rapid delivery of vast volumes of arrows.

83. A Mamluk Mosque Lamp, decorated with the name of the patron who commissioned it, the emir Tankizbugha

84. A Mamluk Brass Bowl with Silver Inlay. The lotus, a motif brought from China by the Mamluks' deadliest enemies the Mongols, became almost ubiquitous in Islamic art after the thirteenth century

85. A Portal in Sultan al-Nasir's Mausoleum in Cairo. The arch was taken as booty from the Crusader church of Saint Jean in Acre by the Mamluks in 1291

86. The Giostra in Arezzo, Italy. Twice a year, the knights of the Crusader Kingdom are remembered in a joust undertaken by competing quarters of the city against their old enemy, Il Saraceno

87. An Anatolian Carpet with Animal Designs, c. fourteenth century

88. Statues of John of Matha, Felix of Valois and Saint Ivan on Charles Bridge, Prague. The work honours the founders of the Trinitarians, an order that redeemed Christians in captivity under the Turks, and Saint Ivan, the patron saint of the Slays, 1714

89. The Chapel of the Holy Cross, Karlstejn, Czech Republic. Emperor Charles IV created the room to represent the New Jerusalem described in Revelation 21, c.1350

Contents note continued: 90. A Ceremonial Sword of the Order of the Dragon, a Catholic order created by Sigismund of Hungary in 1408 Its members swore to combat heretics and the Ottomans

91. Fifteenth-century War Wagons were decidedly unheroic and stood against all notions of chivalry, but they afforded vital protection for infantry and hand gunners against cavalry and could also transport artillery shot and other tools of 'modern war'

92. Tombstones of Heretics: Bogomils in Bosnia and Cathars in Carcassonne, thirteenth century

93. Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, in which Teutonic Knights are equated with the contemporary Nazi state of Germany, and the invading German armies of 1914 The presence of coal-scuttle helmets on the Crusader infantry and swastikas on the mitres of the Catholic bishops drove home the message of colonial feudalism being defeated by Russian folk [ect.]

94. The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See, Seville. Its bell tower 'La Giralda', is a minaret built by the Almohad caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf in 1198 for his grand mosque, with later Christian additions

95. The Hussite Warlord Jan Ziika on Vitkov Hill in Prague. Planned in 1937, completed in 1950

96. Vast Mosques and Extensions to the Body of Hagia Sophia. Ottoman contributions to the greatest city of the medieval age

97. The Sacro Monte of Varallo, Italy. Started in 1491 and added to until the seventeenth century, so that those, 'who could not go on a pilgrimage might see Jerusalem'

98. A Salt Cellar with Portuguese Soldiers and a Caravel. Carved from ivory in Benin c.1600

99. Troops of the British Indian Empire. Cavalry on the Tigris and Infantry in Jerusalem, 1917 Their British commanders are also seen here mixing with fellow Italian and French officers to listen to a Franciscan monk preaching

100. Nazi Propaganda. Saint George draped in swastikas killing the dragon from a book about 'heraldry', and a Nazi Knight standing against the unholy faith of Bolshevism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781526795304

1526795302

OCLC:

1272898503

Publisher Number:

99990694201