The First Crusade : the Call from the East /

According 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 Fra...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Frankopan, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Alexius > I Comnenus, > Emperor of the East, > 1048-1118.
Alexius > I Comnenus, > Emperor of the East, > 1048-1118
1081-1118
Crusades > First, 1096-1099.
Croisades > 1re croisade, 1096-1099.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Crusades
Byzantine Empire > History > Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
Byzantine Empire
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Europe in crisis
  • The recovery of Constantinople
  • Stability in the East
  • The collapse of Asia Minor
  • On the brink of disaster
  • The call from the East
  • The response of the west
  • To the imperial city
  • First encounters with the enemy
  • The struggle for the soul of the crusade
  • The crusade unravels
  • The consequences of the First Crusade.

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