The world of the crusades : an illustrated history /

Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipm...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tyerman, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1200-1499
Crusades.
Crusades > 13th-15th centuries.
Croisades.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. What were the Crusades?
  • One. The Mediterranean crisis and the background to the First Crusade
  • Two. The First Crusade
  • Three. 'The land beyond the sea': Latin Christian lordship in the Levant, 1099-1187
  • Four. Crusades and the defence of Outremer, 1100-1187
  • Five. The Third Crusade and the reinvention of crusading, 1187-1198
  • Six. Reshaping the eastern Mediterranean: Egypt and the Crusades, 1200-1250
  • Seven. Crusades in Spain
  • Eight. Baltic crusades
  • Nine. Crusades against Christians
  • Ten. The end of the Jerusalem Wars, 1250-1370
  • Eleven. The Ottomans
  • Twelve. New challenges and the end of crusading
  • Thirteen. Crusading: our contemporary?
  • Postscript. Do the Crusades matter?

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