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Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-12-03
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780521347709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Author: August Charles Krey
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Tyerman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011-11-03
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 0141970871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers 'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!' The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom of heaven in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. This remarkable collection brings together a wide variety of contemporary accounts of the First Crusade, including Pope Urban II's initial call to arms of 1095, as well as the first-hand writings of priests, knights, a Jewish pilgrim, a destitute noblewoman, an Iraqi poet and the historian Anna Comnena. Together they provide a vivid and nuanced picture of the First Crusade and the people who were swept up in it. Edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Tyerman
Author: Steven Runciman
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Asbridge
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 0061981362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge—a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness” (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker)—covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, readable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history. From Richard the Lionheart to the mighty Saladin, from the emperors of Byzantium to the Knights Templar, Asbridge’s book is a magnificent epic of Holy War between the Christian and Islamic worlds, full of adventure, intrigue, and sweeping grandeur.
Author: Catherine Jinks
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780763620196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn twelth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.
Author: Zsolt Hunyadi
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9789639241428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of a conference on a theme, the 34 essays by specialists from 15 countries prevent various facets of the struggles waged for the possession of the Holy Land between the 10th and 13th centuries, and of the activities of the military orders elsewhere in Europe.
Author: Peter Frankopan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-04-15
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0674064992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II’s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade’s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade’s untold history.
Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1951
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521061612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Author: Thomas Asbridge
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-01-26
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1849837694
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A nuanced and sophisticated analysis... Exhilarating' Sunday Telegraph Nine hundred years ago, one of the most controversial episodes in Christian history was initiated. The Pope stated that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the New Testament, God actually wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born. Focusing on the characters that drove this extraordinary campaign, this fascinating period of history is recreated through awe-inspiring and often barbaric tales of bold adventure while at the same time providing significant insights into early medieval society, morality and mentality. The First Crusade marked a watershed in relations between Islam and the West, a conflict that set these two world religions on a course towards deep-seated animosity and enduring enmity. The chilling reverberations of this earth-shattering clash still echo in the world today. '[Asbridge] balances persuasive analysis with a flair for conveying with dramatic power the crusaders' plight' Financial Times
