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How did the crusades come about? This book explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled Church of the 11th century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. [The book] uses the most recent research to provide a broad-ranging account of a…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Chronology of main events -- 1 Problems in crusading historiography -- 2 The papacy, the knighthood and the easte…
The Crusades serve as a focus study for a wider enquiry into the politics, society and culture of medieval Europe in Jotischky's book. He deals most fully with the first and second Crusades and with the 'Crusader states' that thrived in the 12th century.
Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled Church of the 11th century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offers insights into their co…
Crusading and the Crusader States explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled Church of the 11th century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans. It follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions, offers insights into their co…
The name of Rome excites a picture of power and organisation, as do the widely-spread ruins that Roman civilization left behind. Yet Rome grew out of a collection of small villages and major developments such as the growth of Empire were unplanned and completely unprepared for. …
