A History of the Crusades, Volume IV

A History of the Crusades, Volume IV

Author: Kenneth Meyer Setton

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 1977-09

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780299068240

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This work contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. The six volumes stand as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.


A History of the Crusades

A History of the Crusades

Author: Steven Runciman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-12-03

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 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, Volume 2

A History of the Crusades, Volume 2

Author: Robert Lee Wolff

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-30

Total Pages: 890

ISBN-13: 1512819565

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.


The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains

The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains

Author: Mike Horswell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-27

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1000084973

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Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and present the memory of crusading in the modern period as a productive, exciting, and much needed area of investigation. This new volume explores the ways in which significant crusading figures have been employed as heroes and villains, and by whom. Each chapter analyses a case study relating to a key historical figure including the First Crusader Tancred; ‘villains’ Reynald of Châtillon and Conrad of Montferrat; the oft-overlooked Queen Melisende of Jerusalem; the entangled memories of Richard ‘the Lionheart’ and Saladin; and the appropriation of St Louis IX by the British. Through fresh approaches, such as a new translation of the inscriptions on the wreath laid on Saladin’s tomb by Kaiser Wilhelm II, this book represents a significant cutting-edge intervention in thinking about memory, crusader medievalism, and the processes of making heroes and villains. The Making of Crusading Heroes and Villains is the perfect tool for scholars and students of the crusades, and for historians concerned with the development of reputations and memory.


Story of the Crusades

Story of the Crusades

Author: John Green

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0486451658

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Set against a vivid backdrop of ancient lands and mighty fortresses, 30 ready-to-color pictures of the Crusades depict fierce battles, courageous leaders, and the fall of magnificent cities.


The World of the Crusades

The World of the Crusades

Author: Christopher Tyerman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-05-23

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0300245459

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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.


The Crusades

The Crusades

Author: Alan V. Murray

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Published: 2006-08-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781576078624

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The first multivolume encyclopedia to document the history of one of the most influential religious movements of the Middle Ages—the Crusades. The Crusades: An Encyclopedia surveys all aspects of the crusading movement from its origins in the 11th century to its decline in the 16th century. Unlike other works, which focus on the eastern Mediterranean region, this expansive four-volume encyclopedia also includes the struggle of Christendom against its enemies in Iberia, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region, and also covers the military orders, crusades against fellow Christians, heretics, and more. This work includes comprehensive entries on personalities such as Godfrey of Bouillon, who refused the title "King of Jerusalem," and St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who tore up his own clothing to make symbols of the cross for crusaders, as well as key events, countries, places, and themes that shed light on everything from the propaganda that inspired crusading warriors to the ways in which they fought. Special coverage of topics such as taxation, pilgrimage, warfare, chivalry, and religious orders give readers an appreciation of the multifaceted nature of these "holy wars."