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Crusading and the Crusader States.
Crusading as a subject has expanded in recent years to include new fields of enquiry. This book examines how crusading historiography includes new areas and new definitions, focusing on two fundamental issues in current writing: why people went on crusades and what forms the western settlement in th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Recovering the past.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of maps and genealogical tables; Chronology of main events; Preface; Publisher acknowledgements; 1. Problems in crusading historiography; What does it mean to study the crusades?; Three historiographical themes; 2. The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean; The papacy on the eve of the First Crusade; The western knighthood on the eve of the First Crusade; The eastern Mediterranean on the eve of the crusade; 3. Crusade and settlement, 1095-c.1118; Preaching the crusade; The First Crusade, 1096-1102.
- Political settlement in Jerusalen, 1099-c.1118Settlement in the north, 1098-1119; 4. Politics and war in the Crusader States, 1118-87; Political developments in Outremer, 1118-44; The Military Orders; The Second Crusade, 1145-50; The zenith and nadir of the Latin East, 1153-87; 5. The Islamic reaction, 1097-1193; The first generation; Zengi and Nur ad-Din: jihad revived; Saladin and the zenith of jihad; 6. Crusader society; Franks and natives: assimilation and marginalisation; The Church and the Crusader States; Art and architecture; Economy and society.
- 7. Recovery in the East, new challenges in Europe: crusading, 1187-1216The Third Crusade; Problems of leadership and logistics: The Fourth Crusade; Innocent III and the idea and practice of crusading; 8. Varieties of crusading from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; Crusades and holy wars; The Reconquista in Spain, c.1057-1212; The 'political' crusades of the thirteenth century; The northern crusades; Frankish Greece; 9. Crusading and the Crusader States in the thirteenth century, 1217-74; The challenge of Egypt: the Fifth Crusade, 1217-21; Frederick II and the kingdom of Jerusalem.
- Crown and barons in the kingdom of Jerusalem from Hattin to St LouisSt Louis, the 'king over the water'; 10. The later crusades, 1274-1336; Mongols, Mamluks and the Crusader States; The papacy, crusading and the Holy Land, c. 1274-91; The difficulties of crusading in the fourteenth century; The Holy Land in the later medieval mind; Brief biographies; Bibliography; Index.