The First Crusade and Idea of Crusading Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : A&C Black
• File Size : 29,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 April 2003

""Riley-Smith marshals his case lucidly.""--Times Literary Supplement ""Riley-Smith's analysis of the formation of Crusading ideology offers a provocative new interpretation. . . . [His] scholarship is impeccable, and he supports his contentions

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 35,6 Mb
• Release Date : 27 November 2009

In this classic work, presented here with a new introduction, one of the world's most renowned crusade historians approaches this central topic of medieval history with freshness and impeccable research.

• Publisher : CRC Press
• File Size : 35,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 July 2017

Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 54,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 October 2016

According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the rising menace

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 22 April 2016

Only recently have historians of the crusades begun to seriously investigate the presence of the idea of crusading as an act of vengeance, despite its frequent appearance in crusading sources.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 1997

A detailed account of the circumstances and motives of the first crusaders.

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 31 May 2008

The First Crusade (1096 – 1099) was an extraordinary undertaking. Because the repercussions of that expedition have rippled on down the centuries, there has been an enormous literature on the subject. Yet, unlike

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Claiming that many in the West lack a thorough understanding of crusading, Jonathan Riley-Smith explains why and where the Crusades were fought, identifies their architects, and shows how deeply their

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 26 January 2012

'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

• Publisher : Arx Publishing, LLC
• File Size : 51,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

"Originally published by Princeton University Press, 1921"--T.p. verso.