The World of the Crusades / Christopher Tyerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyerman, Christopher, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crusades.

Crusades--13th-15th centuries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 517 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects, from weaponry and military technology to carpentry and shipping, conditioned them. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the material trappings of crusading wars and the objects that memorialized them, in architecture, sculpture, jewelry, painting, and manuscripts. Christopher Tyerman's incorporation of the physical and visual remains of crusading enriches our understanding of how the crusaders themselves articulated their mission, how they viewed their place in the world, and how they related to the cultures they derived from and preyed upon.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

THE CRUSADES IN DETAIL

ILLUSTRATIONS, FIGURES AND MAPS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

THE HOLY SEPULCHRE

Introduction: WHAT WERE THE CRUSADES?

1. THE MEDITERRANEAN CRISIS AND THE BACKGROUND TO THE FIRST CRUSADE

2. THE FIRST CRUSADE

3. 'THE LAND BEYOND THE SEA': LATIN CHRISTIAN LORDSHIP IN THE LEVANT, 1099-1187

4. CRUSADES AND THE DEFENCE OF OUTREMER, 1100-1187

5. THE THIRD CRUSADE AND THE REINVENTION OF CRUSADING, 1187-1198

6. RESHAPING THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: EGYPT AND THE CRUSADES, 1200-1250

7. CRUSADES IN SPAIN

8. BALTIC CRUSADES

9. CRUSADES AGAINST CHRISTIANS

10. THE END OF THE JERUSALEM WARS, 1250-1370

11. THE OTTOMANS

12. NEW CHALLENGES AND THE END OF CRUSADING

13. CRUSADING: OUR CONTEMPORARY?

Postscript: DO THE CRUSADES MATTER?

CHRONOLOGY

RULERS

GLOSSARY

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-24545-9

OCLC:

1129182654