God's war : a new history of the Crusades /

God's war : a new history of the Crusades /

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Main Author: Tyerman, Christopher (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

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Crusades.

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Call Number: D157 .T89 2006

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Table of Contents:
  • The First Crusade. The origins of Christian holy war
  • The summons to Jerusalem
  • The march to Constantinople
  • The road to the Holy Sepulchre
  • Frankish Outremer. The foundation of Christian Outremer
  • The Latin states
  • East is east and east is west: Outremer in the twelfth century
  • The Second Crusade. A new path to salvation? Western Christendom and holy war, 1100-1145
  • God's bargain: summoning the Second Crusade
  • 'The spirit of the pilgrim God': fighting the Second Crusade
  • The Third Crusade. 'A great cause for mourning': the revival of crusading and the Third Crusade
  • The call of the Cross
  • To the siege of Acre
  • The Palestine War, 1191-2
  • The Fourth Crusade. 'Ehud's sharpened sword'
  • The Fourth Crusade: preparations
  • The Fourth Crusade: diversion
  • The expansion of crusading. The Albigensian Crusades, 1209-29
  • The Fifth Crusade, 1213-21
  • Frontier crusades 1: conquest in Spain
  • Frontier crusades 2: the Baltic and the North
  • The defence of Outremer. Survival and decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the thirteenth century
  • The defence of the Holy Land, 1221-44
  • Louis IX and the fall of mainland Outremer, 1244-91
  • The later crusades. The eastern crusades in the later Middle Ages
  • The crusade and Christian society in the later Middle Ages.