The First Crusaders, 1095-1131
Author: Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521646031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed account of the circumstances and motives of the first crusaders.
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The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading
Author: Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009-11-27
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780812220766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this classic work, presented here with a new introduction, one of the world's most renowned crusade historians approaches this central topic of medieval history with freshness and impeccable research.
What Were the Crusades?
Author: Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-09-16
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1137013923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRiley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.
The Experience of Crusading
Author: Marcus Graham Bull
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-06-23
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521781510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays focusing on the history and politics of the Latin East.
The First Crusade and Idea of Crusading
Author: Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2003-04-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 082648431X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite various studies on the development of crusading thought, the First Crusade itself has not been properly examined from this perspective. Drawing on a range of European chronicles and charter collections, this book discusses the launching of the First Crusade, the practical experience of the crusaders and the interpretations placed upon this experience by contemporary commentators.
Encountering Islam on the First Crusade
Author: Nicholas Morton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-07-14
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1316721027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First Crusade (1095–9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a characterisation borne out by the sources? Engagingly written and supported by a wealth of evidence, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders' attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how they interpreted the new peoples, civilizations and landscapes they encountered; sights for which their former lives in Western Christendom had provided little preparation. Morton offers a varied picture of cross cultural relations, depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for supremacy, others for their religion, and many simply for survival.
The Book of Contemplation
Author: Usama ibn Munqidh
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-07-03
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0141919175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.
The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c.1070-1309
Author: J. Riley-Smith
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1137264756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs one of the greatest of the military orders that were generated in the Church, the Order of the Hospital of St John was a major landowner and a significant political presence in most European states. It was also a leading player in the settlements established in the Levant in the wake of the crusades. It survives today. In this source-based and up-to-date account of its activities and internal history in the first two centuries of its existence, attention is particularly paid to the lives of the brothers and sisters who made up its membership and were professed religious. Themes in the book relate to the tension that always existed between the Hospital's roles as both a hospitaller and a military order and its performance as an institution that was at the same time a religious order and a great international corporation.
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
Author: Kathryn Blair Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-27
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1107139082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.
The Social Structure of the First Crusade
Author: Conor Kostick
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-05-31
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9047445023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First Crusade (1096 – 1099) was an extraordinary undertaking. Because the repercussions of that expedition have rippled on down the centuries, there has been an enormous literature on the subject. Yet, unlike so many other areas of medieval history, until now the First Crusade has failed to attract the attention of historians interested in social dynamics. This book is the first to examine the sociology of the sources in order to provide a detailed analysis of the various social classes which participated in the expedition and the tensions between them. In doing so, it offers a fresh approach to the many debates surrounding the subject of the First Crusade.
