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 tolera…
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 tolera…
A translation into English of "Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi". This text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath. The work as a whole contains details which provide a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative…
"This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. This text provides an exceptionally important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105, but is often neglected, due in no small part to the difficultie…
This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. The text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details fo…
"Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades; this is a translation of Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad's account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and …
"Saladin is perhaps the one and only Muslim ruler who emerges with any clarity in standard tales and histories of the Crusades; this is a translation of Baha' al-Din Ibn Shaddad's account of his life and career. Ibn Shaddad (1144-1234) was clearly a great admirer of Saladin and …
The Alexiad
by Comnena, Anna, Frankopan, Peter, Sewter, E. R. A., (Edgar Robert Ashton)
fromPenguin classics
The Alexiad
by Comnena, Anna, Frankopan, Peter, Sewter, E. R. A., (Edgar Robert Ashton)
fromPenguin classics
Anna Comnena (1083-1153) wrote The Alexiad as an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. It is also an important source of information on the Byzantine war with the Normans, and on the First Crusade in which Alexius participated. While the Byzantines…
These essays, selected from papers presented at the International Symposium on Crusade Studies in 2006, represent a cross-section of this field. The range of studies in this volume includes subjects such as Muslim ad Christian understandings of their wars within their own intell…
