The Crusaders In The East

Author : Krijna Nelly Ciggaar,Herman G. B. Teule
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042050560

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East and West in the Crusader States by Krijna Nelly Ciggaar,Herman G. B. Teule Pdf

The meeting of East and West in the Crusader States was the theme of a symposium held at Hernen Castle in 1997. It was the continuation of a similar symposium which has been published in the Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 75. Various communities (Arabs, Armenians, Ethiopians, Greeks, Syrians and Latins) and various religions (the Church of Rome, the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, the Jacobites, the Muslims and others) play their part in the various Crusader States, sometimes in the effort to ecumenism, sometimes in the form of confrontations. Coins and seals in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem betray Eastern and Western influences. Daily life is reflected in historical texts, and in exempla and miracula. The fall of Edessa is described in the Lament of Edessa by Nerses Snorhali, which is here for the first time translated into English. Even icon-painting in Egypt reflects crusader influence.

Author : Malcolm Barber
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300189315

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The Crusader States by Malcolm Barber Pdf

“An enriching account of the expansion of the political and cultural frontiers of the Latin West in the central Middle Ages.”—History Today When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they believed their victory was an evident sign of God’s favor. It was, therefore, incumbent upon them to fulfill what they understood to be God’s plan: to re-establish Christian control of Syria and Palestine. This book is devoted to the resulting settlements, the crusader states, that developed around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and survived until Richard the Lionheart’s departure in 1192. Focusing on Jerusalem, Antioch, Tripoli, and Edessa, Malcolm Barber vividly reconstructs the crusaders’ arduous process of establishing and protecting their settlements, and the simultaneous struggle of vanquished inhabitants to adapt to life alongside their conquerors. Rich with colorful accounts of major military campaigns, the book goes much deeper, exploring in detail the culture of the crusader states—the complex indigenous inheritance, the architecture, the political, legal, and economic institutions, the ecclesiastical framework through which the crusaders perceived the world, the origins of the Knights Templar and the Hospitallers, and more. With the zest of a scholar pursuing a life-long interest, Barber presents a complete narrative and cultural history of the crusader states while setting a new standard for the term “total history.” A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in the Western Europe Category “Barber is a highly distinguished scholar, whose touch is continually deft, and he navigates the basis of the main narrative histories with care . . . a delight to read.”—Literary Review

Author : W. B. Stevenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107669093

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The Crusaders in the East by W. B. Stevenson Pdf

This book provides a history of the political relations between the states founded by Crusaders and the Islamic states with which they waged war.

Author : William Barrow Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Crusades
ISBN : LCCN:80009075

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The Crusaders in the East by William Barrow Stevenson Pdf

Author : W. B. Stevenson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505977320

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The Crusaders in the East by W. B. Stevenson Pdf

This is a history that looks at the crusades and the crusader states that were established in the wake of the fighting.

Author : Steven Runciman
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 014198550X

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A History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman Pdf

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 : Malcolm Barber,Keith Bate
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472413932

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Letters from the East by Malcolm Barber,Keith Bate Pdf

This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. They convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening, and show us the feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. Some of the letters translated here are famous, others hardly known, but all offer unique insight into the minds of those who took part in the crusading movement.

Author : Alex Mallett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503565816

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Franks and Crusades in Medieval Eastern Christian Historiography by Alex Mallett Pdf

This volume is an introduction to twelve of the main medieval Eastern Christian historians used by modern scholars to reconstruct the events and personalities of the crusading period in the Levant. Each of the chapters examines one historian and their work(s), and first contains an introductory examination of their life, background and influences. This is then followed by a study of their work(s) relevant to the Crusades, including the reasons for writing, themes, and methodology. Such an approach will allow modern researchers to better understand the background and contexts to these texts, and thus to reconstruct the past in a more nuanced and detailed way. Written by twelve world-leading scholars, and examining chronicles written in Armenian, Greek, Syriac, and Copto-Arabic, this book will be essential reading for anybody engaged in research on the Crusades, as well as Eastern Christian and Islamic history, and medieval historiography.

Author : Christopher MacEvitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0812202694

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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East by Christopher MacEvitt Pdf

In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Muslims and Jews but also local Christians, whose culture and traditions were a world apart from their own. The crusader-occupied swaths of Syria and Palestine were home to many separate Christian communities: Greek and Syrian Orthodox, Armenians, and other sects with sharp doctrinal differences. How did these disparate groups live together under Frankish rule? In The Crusades and the Christian World of the East, Christopher MacEvitt marshals an impressive array of literary, legal, artistic, and archeological evidence to demonstrate how crusader ideology and religious difference gave rise to a mode of coexistence he calls "rough tolerance." The twelfth-century Frankish rulers of the Levant and their Christian subjects were separated by language, religious practices, and beliefs. Yet western Christians showed little interest in such differences. Franks intermarried with local Christians and shared shrines and churches, but they did not hesitate to use military force against Christian communities. Rough tolerance was unlike other medieval modes of dealing with religious difference, and MacEvitt illuminates the factors that led to this striking divergence. "It is commonplace to discuss the diversity of the Middle East in terms of Muslims, Jews, and Christians," MacEvitt writes, "yet even this simplifies its religious complexity." While most crusade history has focused on Christian-Muslim encounters, MacEvitt offers an often surprising account by examining the intersection of the Middle Eastern and Frankish Christian worlds during the century of the First Crusade.

Author : Peter Frankopan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674970786

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The First Crusade by Peter Frankopan Pdf

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 of Islam. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? In this groundbreaking book, countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the untold history of the First Crusade. Nearly all historians of the First Crusade focus on the papacy and its willing warriors in the West, along with innumerable popular tales of bravery, tragedy, and resilience. In sharp contrast, Frankopan examines events from the East, in particular from Constantinople, seat of the Christian Byzantine Empire. The result is revelatory. The true instigator of the First Crusade, we see, was the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who in 1095, with his realm under siege from the Turks and on the point of collapse, begged the pope for military support. Basing his account on long-ignored eastern sources, Frankopan also gives a provocative and highly original explanation of the world-changing events that followed the First Crusade. The Vatican's victory cemented papal power, while Constantinople, the heart of the still-vital Byzantine Empire, never recovered. As a result, both Alexios and Byzantium were consigned to the margins of history. From Frankopan's revolutionary work, we gain a more faithful understanding of the way the taking of Jerusalem set the stage for western Europe's dominance up to the present day and shaped the modern world.

Author : Niall Christie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351007344

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Muslims and Crusaders by Niall Christie Pdf

Muslims and Crusaders combines chronological narrative, discussion of important areas of scholarly enquiry and evidence from Islamic primary sources to give a well-rounded survey of Christianity’s wars in the Middle East, 1095–1382. Revised, expanded and updated to take account of the most recent scholarship, this second edition enables readers to achieve a broader and more complete perspective on the crusading period by presenting the crusades from the viewpoints of those against whom they were waged, the Muslim peoples of the Levant. The book introduces the reader to the most significant issues that affected Muslim responses to the European crusaders and their descendants who would go on to live in the Latin Christian states that were created in the region. It considers not only the military encounters between Muslims and crusaders, but also the personal, political, diplomatic, and trade interactions that took place between the Muslims and Franks away from the battlefield. Engaging with a wide range of translated primary source documents, including chronicles, dynastic histories, religious and legal texts, and poetry, Muslims and Crusaders is ideal for students and historians of the crusades.

Author : William Barron Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:77259459

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Crusaders in the East by William Barron Stevenson Pdf

Author : William Barron Stevenson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1333818181

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The Crusaders in the East by William Barron Stevenson Pdf

Excerpt from The Crusaders in the East: A Brief History of the Wars of Islam With the Latins in Syria During the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries The writer owes his interest in the subject of this volume, and his conception of the history of the crusades as part of the history of the Moslem east, to the late Sir William Muir, As Principal of Edinburgh University he pointed out the Opportunity for research in this department and in response to his invitation the present writer was the author of a University Prize Essay on the subject. The list of books on pages 3 72 - 376 may be regarded as an acknowledgment of the writer's debt to the modern authors who are there mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Barron Stevenson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Crusaders in the East by William Barron Stevenson Pdf

Author : John France
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0521589878

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Victory in the East by John France Pdf

A paperback of John France's new analysis of the strategies and battles of the First Crusade.