A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Title A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem PDF eBook
Author Steven Runciman
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 408
Release 1951
Genre History
ISBN 9780521061612

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Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.

A History of the Crusades

A History of the Crusades
Title A History of the Crusades PDF eBook
Author Steven Runciman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 412
Release 1987-12-03
Genre History
ISBN 9780521347709

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Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.

A History of the Crusades: The first hundred years, edited by M. W. Baldwin

A History of the Crusades: The first hundred years, edited by M. W. Baldwin
Title A History of the Crusades: The first hundred years, edited by M. W. Baldwin PDF eBook
Author Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher
Pages 736
Release 1955
Genre Crusades
ISBN

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God's War

God's War
Title God's War PDF eBook
Author Christopher Tyerman
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 1040
Release 2007-10-04
Genre History
ISBN 0141904313

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'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' - Tom Holland, Spectator Thousands left their homelands in the Middle Ages to fight wars abroad. But how did the Crusades actually happen? From recruitment propaganda to raising money, ships to siege engines, medicine to the power of prayer, this vivid, surprising history shows holy war - and medieval society - in a new light.

The History of the Crusades

The History of the Crusades
Title The History of the Crusades PDF eBook
Author Joseph Fr. Michaud
Publisher
Pages 552
Release 1881
Genre Crusades
ISBN

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Holy Warriors

Holy Warriors
Title Holy Warriors PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Phillips
Publisher Random House
Pages 473
Release 2010-03-09
Genre History
ISBN 1588369757

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From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars. Starting with Pope Urban II’s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world’s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions—as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries. Holy Warriors also discusses how the term “crusade” survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush’s pious “war on terror.” Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figures—from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalem—Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.

The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099 to 1291 A.D.

The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099 to 1291 A.D.
Title The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099 to 1291 A.D. PDF eBook
Author Claude Reignier Conder
Publisher
Pages 594
Release 1897
Genre Jerusalem
ISBN

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