Crusading and the crusader states /
Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled Church of the 11th century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offers insights into their continuing failure, and...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Problems in crusading historiography
- The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean
- Crusade and settlement,1095-c.1118
- Politics and war in the Crusader states,1118-87
- The Islamic reaction, 1097-1193
- Crusader society
- Recovery in the east, new challenges in Europe : crusading, 1187-1216
- Varieties of crusading from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries
- Crusading and the Crusader states in the thirteenth century, 1217-74
- Crusading and the Holy Land in the later Middle Ages.