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Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : History
ISBN : 052106161X
Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Crusades
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001956536
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 052134770X
Sir Steven Runciman explores the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 014198550X
The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades 'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel' An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades as a romantic Christian adventure, and instead shifted the focus of the story to the East. With verve and drama, volume one of Runciman's trilogy tells the story of the First Crusade - from its unlikely beginnings in pilgrimage to the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem and the carving out of new territory on the edge of the eastern Mediterranean. 'Without question one of the major feats of contemporary historical writing' The New York Times 'The historian whose magisterial works transformed our understanding of Byzantium, the medieval church and the crusades' Guardian
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0521611482
, first published in 2005, is justly acclaimed as the most complete and fascinating account of the historic journey to save the Holy Land from the infidel.
Author : Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Crusades
ISBN : 0299048349
The six volumes of A History of the Crusades will stand as the definitive history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Moslem, and Christian perspectives, and containing a wealth of information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world.
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 052134770X
Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is being reissued. This volume deals completely with the First Crusade and the foundation of the kingdom of Jerusalem. As Runciman says in his preface: 'Whether we regard the Crusades as the most tremendous and most romantic of Christian adventures, or as the last of the barbarian invasions, they form a central fact in medieval history. Before their inception the centre of our civilization was placed in Byzantium and in the lands of the Arab caliphate. Before they faded out the hegemony in civilization had passed to western Europe. Out of this transference modern history was born.'
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Crusades
ISBN : OCLC:1373024965
Author : Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Crusades
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007443836
Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Crusades
ISBN : OCLC:23085560
Author : Marshall W. Baldwin,Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512818642
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141970875
The story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers 'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!' The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom of heaven in an overwhelmingly Muslim world. This remarkable collection brings together a wide variety of contemporary accounts of the First Crusade, including Pope Urban II's initial call to arms of 1095, as well as the first-hand writings of priests, knights, a Jewish pilgrim, a destitute noblewoman, an Iraqi poet and the historian Anna Comnena. Together they provide a vivid and nuanced picture of the First Crusade and the people who were swept up in it. Edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Tyerman
Author : Jonathan Phillips
Publisher : Random House
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588369758
From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players—knights and sultans, kings and poets, Christians and Muslims. Jonathan Phillips traces the origins, expansion, decline, and conclusion of the Crusades and comments on their contemporary echoes—from the mysteries of the Templars to the grim reality of al-Qaeda. Holy Warriors puts the past in a new perspective and brilliantly sheds light on the origins of today’s wars. Starting with Pope Urban II’s emotive, groundbreaking speech in November 1095, in which he called for the recovery of Jerusalem from Islam by the First Crusade, Phillips traces the centuries-long conflict between two of the world’s great faiths. Using songs, sermons, narratives, and letters of the period, he reveals how the success of the First Crusade inspired generations of kings to campaign for their own vainglory and set down a marker for the knights of Europe, men who increasingly blurred the boundaries between chivalry and crusading. In the Muslim world, early attempts to call a jihad fell upon deaf ears until the charisma of the Sultan Saladin brought the struggle to a climax. Yet the story that emerges has other dimensions—as never before, Phillips incorporates the holy wars within the story of medieval Christendom and Islam and shines new light on many truces, alliances, and diplomatic efforts that have been forgotten over the centuries. Holy Warriors also discusses how the term “crusade” survived into the modern era and how its redefinition through romantic literature and the drive for colonial empires during the nineteenth century gave it an energy and a resonance that persisted down to the alliance between Franco and the Church during the Spanish Civil War and right up to George W. Bush’s pious “war on terror.” Elegantly written, compulsively readable, and full of stunning new portraits of unforgettable real-life figures—from Richard the Lionhearted to Melisende, the formidable crusader queen of Jerusalem—Holy Warriors is a must-read for anyone interested in medieval Europe, as well as for those seeking to understand the history of religious conflict.
Author : Christopher Tyerman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141904313
'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator 'Tyerman's book is fascinating not just for what it has to tell us about the Crusades, but for the mirror it holds up to today's religious extremism' - Tom Holland, Spectator Thousands left their homelands in the Middle Ages to fight wars abroad. But how did the Crusades actually happen? From recruitment propaganda to raising money, ships to siege engines, medicine to the power of prayer, this vivid, surprising history shows holy war - and medieval society - in a new light.
Author : Bernard S Bachrach,David S. Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351888943
This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. This text provides an exceptionally important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105, but is often neglected, due in no small part to the difficulties of its Latin. A native of the Norman city of Caen where he was a student of Arnulf, the future patriarch of Jerusalem, in 1107 Ralph joined Bohemond of Taranto's army as a military chaplain. After arriving in the East, Ralph took service with Bohemond's nephew Tancred, who ruled the principality of Antioch from 1108 to 1112. Although dedicated to Arnulf, the Gesta Tancredi focuses on the careers of Bohemond and, especially, of Tancred. It is one of the most important sources - indeed the most important Latin source - for the Norman campaigns in Cilicia (1097-1108), and for the early Norman rule of Antioch. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details found in no other source, providing a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative sources for the First Crusade.