An edition of The Crusades
(2003)
The Crusades
a history of armed pilgrimage and holy war
1 Carroll edition
by Geoffrey Hindley
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The Crusades: a history of armed pilgrimage and holy war
January 22, 2003, Carroll & Graf Publishers
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- 1 Carroll edition
0786711051 9780786711055
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First Sentence
"A crusade, or a passagium generale, iter, voyage or Reise, just some of the words used by the participants themselves, was a military expedition sponsored and blessed by the Pope or his appointed agents, against enemies of the Christian Faith."
Table of Contents
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Chronology of jihad and crusade
Introduction : What's in a name?
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 deal
Epilogue : the aftermath
Appendixes.
The Popes, from Gregory VII to Sixtus V
Rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem
Ayyubid dynasty : rulers of Egypt
Byzantine emperors at the time of the first Crusades
Ottoman princes and sultans 1300-1566
Western emperors 1056-1555
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