| Edition |
Revised paperback edition. |
| Description |
xx, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Note |
First published in the UK by Constable in 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index. |
| Contents |
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 ideal -- Epilogue: The aftermath -- Appendix I: The Popes, from Gregory VII to Sixtus V -- Appendix II: Rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem -- Appendix III: Ayyubid dynasty-rulers of Egypt -- Appendix IV: Byzantine Emperors at the time of the first Crusades -- Appendix V: Ottoman princes and sultans 1300-1566 -- Appendix VI: Western emperors 1056-1555. |
| Subject |
Crusades.
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| Note |
Subtitle on cover: Islam and Christianity in the struggle for world supremacy |
| ISBN |
0786713445 |
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