The First Crusade

The First Crusade: the Call from the East

by Frankopan, Peter

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According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II's instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade's untold history.

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  • Full title :The First Crusade : the Call from the East / Peter Frankopan.

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According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II's instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade's untold history.

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  • Publication Date:2012.

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"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by the Bodley Head."

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxiii, 262 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780674069022, 0674069021, 9780674064997, 0674064992
  • oclc:ocn794004243
  • LC Classification:D161.2
  • Dewey Decimal:956/.014

Table of 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.

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Subjects

Alexius I. Comnenus, Emperor of the East Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius … Croisades -- 1re croisade, 1096-1099 crusades Crusades -- First, 1096-1099 History HISTORY -- General. -- Middle East History, Medieval

Writers

Frankopan, Peter

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