"Crusading Preacher from the West."
Author: Fernando Penabaz
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
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God's Battalions
Author: Rodney Stark
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-09-29
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0061582611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. To the contrary, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim terrorist aggression. Stark reviews the history of the seven major Crusades from 1095 to 1291, demonstrating that the Crusades were precipitated by Islamic provocations, centuries of bloody attempts to colonize the West, and sudden attacks on Christian pilgrims and holy places. Although the Crusades were initiated by a plea from the pope, Stark argues that this had nothing to do with any elaborate design of the Christian world to convert all Muslims to Christianity by force of arms. Given current tensions in the Middle East and terrorist attacks around the world, Stark's views are a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding and are sure to spark debate.
Preaching the Crusades
Author: Christoph T. Maier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521638739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the Dominicans' and Franciscans' propagandist role in the thirteenth-century crusades.
Crusade Propaganda and Ideology
Author: Christoph T. Maier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-02-24
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1139425463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2000, presents an edition of seventeen ad status model sermons for the preaching of the crusades from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The majority of these texts had never been printed before publication of this book. They are unique sources for the content of crusade propaganda in the later Middle Ages, giving a rare insight into the way in which propaganda shaped the public's view of crusading during that period. Accompanying the Latin texts is an English translation which is aimed at making these sources accessible to a wider circle of students and scholars. The first part of the book consists of a study of these model sermons which focuses on their place in the pastoral reform movement of the thirteenth century, their specific character as models for the use of crusade propagandists, their internal structure, and the image of the crusade conveyed in the texts.
Far-Right Vanguard
Author: John S. Huntington
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-10-29
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0812253477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An examination of the far-right roots of mid-twentieth-century conservatism"--
War and Violence in the Western Sources for the First Crusade
Author: Sini Kangas
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-05-30
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9004693599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Westerners accepted killing for religion and praised the outcome of the First Crusade (1096-1099). At the same time, their attitude to violence was ambivalent. Theologians shunned the practical use of force, while the warrior aristocracy valued the capacity for physical destruction. In the absence of theological doctrine on the practicalities of holy warfare, the first crusaders draw their ideas about killing from diverse and sometimes conflicting traditions. This book answers questions about how religious violence was described, justified and remembered in the sources of the First Crusade. What was the relation between faith, convention, and action?
The Mongols and the West
Author: Peter Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1317878981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mongols had a huge impact on medieval Europe and the Islamic world. This book provides a comprehensive survey of contacts between the Catholic West and the Mongol world-empire from the first appearance of Chinggis Khan’s armies in 1221 down to the death of Tamerlane (1405) and the battle of Tannenberg (1410). This book considers the Mongols as allies as well as conquerors; the perception of them in the West; the papal response to the threat (and opportunity) they presented; the fate of the Frankish principalities in the Holy Land in the path of the Mongol onslaught; Western European embassies and missions to the East; and the impact of the Mongols on the expanding world view of the maturing Middle Ages. For courses in crusading history and medieval European history.
Preaching the Crusades to the Eastern Mediterranean
Author: Constantinos Georgiou
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-05
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1351722824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreaching was an integral part of the crusade movement. This book focuses on the efforts of the first four Avignon popes to organize crusade preaching campaigns to the Eastern Mediterranean and on the role of the secular and regular clergy in their implementation. Historians have treated the fall of Acre in 1291 as an arbitrary boundary in crusader studies for far too long. The period 1305–1352 was particularly significant for crusade preaching, yet it has not been studied in detail. This volume thus constitutes an important addition to the flourishing field of late medieval crusade historiography. The core of the book deals with two interlocking themes: the liturgy for the Holy Land and the popular response to crusade preaching between the papacies of Clement V and Clement VI. The book analyses the evolving use of the liturgy for the crusade in combination with preaching and it illustrates the catalytic role of these measures in driving popular pro-crusade sentiments. A key theme in the account is the analysis of the surviving crusade sermons of the Parisian theologians from the era. Critical editions of these previously neglected propagandistic texts are a valuable addition to our corpus of papal correspondence relating to the crusades in the later Middle Ages. This book will be of interest both to specialized historians and to students of late medieval crusading.
The Crusades
Author: Andrew Jotischky
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-01-29
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1780745028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1095 Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Seljuq Turks. Tens of thousands of people joined his cause, making it the single largest event of the Middle Ages. The conflict would rage for over 200 years, transforming Christian and Islamic relations forever. Andrew Jotischky takes readers through the key events, focussing on the experience of crusading, from both sides. Featuring textboxes with fascinating details on the key sites, figures and battles, this essential primer asks all the crucial questions: What were the motivations of the crusaders? What was it like to be a crusader or to live in a crusading society? And how do these events, nearly a thousand years ago, still shape the politics of today?
