ISBN: 1841197661

Edition: Revised paperback edition.

Description: xx, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm

Other Title: Crusades

Notes:

• First published in the UK by Constable in 2003, entitled: The Crusades.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-291) and index.

Contents:

• Beginnings 632-1095
• The First Crusade 1095-1099
• Life and politics in a multicultural world
• The Second Crusade : disaster on the road to Damascus
• Turk and Kurd : heroes of Islam
• Women and an alternative feudalism
• Loss of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade 1187-1192
• The Fourth Crusade : the Latin conquest of Constantinople and the scandal of Christendom
• Heathen, heretics and children
• Triumphs of an excommunicated emperor
• The failures of a saint
• Acre and after
• Chivalry in action and Nicopolis "The last crusade"
• The lingering decline of a flawed ideal
• Epilogue : the aftermath
• Appendix I: the Popes, from Gregory VII to Sixtus V
• Appendix II: Rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem
• Appendix III: Ayyubid dynasty--rulers of Egypt
• Appendix IV: Byzantine Emperors at the time of the first Crusades
• Appendix V: Ottoman princes and sultans 1300-1566
• Appendix VI: Western emperors 1056-1555.

Control Number: 215403

Subjects:

• Christianity.
• Crusades.
• Faith.
• Islam.