The concise history of the Crusades /
Overview: 'God wills it!' With that cry of medieval knights a new era in European history began. Across Europe a wave of pious enthusiasm led many thousands to leave their homes, family, and friends to march to a distant land in a great struggle for Christ. Yet the crusades were more than...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2014]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Critical issues in world and international history.
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Table of Contents:
- The call
- The first crusade
- The rise of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem and the second crusade
- The decline of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem and the third crusade
- The fourth crusade
- Crusading at home
- The fifth crusade and the crusade of Frederick II
- The crusades of St. Louis
- The later crusades
- The legacy of the crusades.