Battles of the Crusades 1097-1444
Author: Kelly DeVries
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781905704583
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Battles of the Crusades 1097-1444
Author: Kelly DeVries
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780760793343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces 20 key battles from the period of religious-inspired conflict in Europe and the Middle East.
Battles of the Crusades 1097-1444
Author: Kelly DeVries
Publisher: Battles
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781782747048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBattles of the Crusades covers examples from every campaign in the religious war between Christianity and Islam--from the well-known encounters in Antioch, Jerusalem, and Harran to the less-famous clash at Montgisard and Saladin's destruction of the Crusader army at Hattin. Each entry includes an introduction, a concise description of the action, and an analysis of the aftermath, while color maps illustrate the movement of forces and development of the fighting.
Warfare in the Age of Crusades
Author: Brian Todd Carey
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2023-01-05
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1526730243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarfare in the Age of Crusades: The Latin East explores in fascinating detail the key campaigns, battles and sieges that shaped the crusading period of the Middle Ages, giving special attention to military technologies, tactics and strategies. Key personalities and political factors are addressed, including the role of papal monarchy in initiating the crusading expeditions, the relationship between Catholic Europe and the Byzantine empire, the role of the religious military orders, and Islamic and Mongol military capabilities. Chapters are devoted to each of the major crusades to the Levant – First, Second, Third and Fourth crusades – and an analysis of the Islamic response. The rise of the Mamluks in Egypt, with their innovative military organization, is covered, as are the failed Egyptian and Tunisian campaigns. The concluding chapters describe the Mongol campaigns in the Levant, the Mamluk response, and the final siege of Acre in 1291. This original and perceptive study of a key stage in medieval military history features regional, strategic and multi-phase tactical maps that illuminate the narrative and provide a valuable resource for students, historians and wargamers alike.
The Story of the Crusades, 1097-1291
Author: Alfred Duggan
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrusading Warfare, 1097-1193
Author: R. C. Smail
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521458382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of waging warfare in the time of the Crusades.
Fighting for Christendom
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis insightful portrait of the Crusades illuminates both the rosy myths and the harsh realities of these epic adventures.
God's War
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007-10-04
Total Pages: 1040
ISBN-13: 0141904313
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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 Crusades
Author: Thomas Asbridge
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-19
Total Pages: 583
ISBN-13: 1849837708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The Times A superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still resonates to this day. In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the Pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the two hundred years that followed this First Crusade, Islam and the West fought for dominion of the Holy Land, clashing in a succession of chillingly brutal wars, both firm in the belief that they were at God's work. The Crusades tells the story of this epic struggle from the perspective of both Christians and Muslims, reconstructing the experiences and attitudes of those on either side of the conflict. Mixing pulsing narrative and piercing insight, it exposes the full horror, passion and barbaric grandeur of the crusading era. ‘A dramatic and powerful look at both sides of the story’ Sunday Times 'A compelling narrative... A masterful conclusion' Observer
The World of the Crusades
Author: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0300245459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
