Title |
The First Crusade : the call from the East / Peter Frankopan. |
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Publication Info. |
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. |
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2011. |
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Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction
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956.014 FRA |
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Description |
xxi, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Note |
"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by the Bodley Head." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Europe in crisis -- The recovery of Constantinople -- Stability in the East -- The collapse of Asia Minor -- On the brink of disaster -- The call from the East -- The response of the West -- To the Imperial City -- First encounters with the enemy -- The struggle for the soul of the crusade -- The crusade unravels -- The consequences of the First Crusade. |
Subject |
Crusades -- First, 1096-1099.
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Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1048-1118.
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
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ISBN |
9780674059948 |
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0674059948 |
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