| Edition |
1st Welcome Rain ed. |
| Description |
400 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-390) and index. |
| Contents |
1. The Muslim World before 1096: Sunnites and Shi'ites -- Cultivation in the Holy Land -- The rise of Islam -- The jihad and the holy war -- Armenia and the crusades -- El Cid and the Christian kingdoms of Spain -- The Normans in Sicily -- Robert Guiscard -- 2. The First Crusade 1096-1099: Pope Urban II -- Anna Comnenea, royal scholar -- The People's Crusade and the Jews -- The crusader states -- How crusaders paid their way -- Frankish medicine -- Godfrey of Bouillon -- Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem -- Holy Sepulchre and Holy Lance -- 3. The Second Crusade 1147-1149: The Turkish armies -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- The Wends -- The common market of Islam -- 'We who had been occidentals have become orientals' -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Women crusaders -- Nur ad-Din -- 4. The Third Crusade 1189-1192: Saladin -- Financing the crusades -- Holy relics -- Frederick Barbarossa -- Richard I and Philip II -- Food in the Holy Land -- The siege of Acre -- Muslim Fortifications -- The Assassins -- 5. The Fourth Crusade 1202-1204: Venice and the Venitians -- Innocent III -- Use and abuse of excommunication -- The Comnenus dynasty -- The naval power of the city of Venice -- Byzantine politics -- The Albigensian crusade -- Simon of Monfort and the Albigensians -- The Children's Crusade -- 6. The 13th Century Crusades: The Kurds -- Templars and Hospitallers -- Frederick II -- Saint Louis, king of France -- The doves of war -- Eunuchs -- The practice of ransom -- Sultan Baybars of Egypt -- 7. The last crusades: The end of the Templars -- Hospitallers capture Rhodes -- Peter of Cyprus the crusading king -- Pilgrim traffic and maritime commerce -- Tamerlane -- The Hussites -- Rise of the Mamluks in Egypt -- 8. The Mediterranean after 1453: Mehmed the Conqueror -- The Ottoman Empire -- Hospitallers lose Rhodes -- Queen Isabella of Castile -- Suleyman the Magnificent -- Hospitallers in Malta -- The battle of Lepanto -- Henry the Navigator -- The New World. |
| Subject |
Crusades -- Sources.
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Crusades -- History.
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| Added Author |
Hallam, Elizabeth M.
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| ISBN |
1566491932 |
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9781566491938 |
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