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

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 51,8 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 : A&C Black
• File Size : 30,9 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 : CRC Press
• File Size : 37,9 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 : 27,6 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 : 35,6 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 : BRILL
• File Size : 43,6 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 : 42,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

From this history, Riley-Smith traces the legacy of the Crusades into modern times, specifically within the attitudes of European imperialists and colonialists and within the beliefs of twentieth-century Muslims. Europeans

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 45,6 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 : 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 : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 35,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 December 2017

The First Crusade (1095-9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture