Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century write by Giles Constable. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared objectives. Thousands of men, and not a few women, participated in the crusades, including not only those who took the cross but many others who shared the costs and losses, as well as the triumphs of the crusaders. This volume contains not a narrative account of the crusades in the twelfth century, but a group of studies illustrating many aspects of crusading that are often passed over in narrative histories, including the courses and historiography of the crusades, their background, ideology, and finances, and how they were seen in Europe. Included are revised and updated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on medieval crusading, along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. They provide an opportunity to meet some individual crusaders, such as Odo Arpinus, whose remarkable career carried him from France to the east and back again, and whose legendary exploits in the Holy Land were recorded in the Old French crusade cycle. Other studies take the reader to the boundaries of Christendom in Spain and Portugal and in eastern Germany, where the campaigns against the Wends formed part of the wider crusading movement. Together they show the range and depth of crusading at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period.
Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria
Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria write by Maya Shatzmiller. This book was released on 1993. Crusaders and Muslims in Twelfth-Century Syria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eleven distinguished contributors have produced essays which deal with the organisation of the crusade in Europe, internal developments in the Crusader Levant, issues of the contemporary Muslim East, and Crusader-Muslim confrontation in twelfth-century Syria. Some break new ground entirely, for instance Malcolm Lyons' investigations of the Arab Hero cycles and Penny Cole's work on Crusader preaching. Others offer important new perspectives on well-known themes: Jonathan Riley-Smith on Crusader ideology and Peter Edbury's revisionist view of the events leading up to the battle of Hattin. Still others offer important overviews which will be appreciated by a broad readership of medieval historians.
The Crusades
The Crusades - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crusades write by Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith. This book was released on 2005-01-01. The Crusades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Crusades: A History is a comprehensive, single-volume history of the Crusades, from their beginnings in the eleventh century through to their decline and eventual ending at the close of the eighteenth century. As well as providing an account of the major Crusades, the book describes the organization of a Crusade, the experience of crusading and the Crusaders themselves.
Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, C.1095-c.1187
Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, C.1095-c.1187 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, C.1095-c.1187 write by William J. Purkis. This book was released on 2008. Crusading Spirituality in the Holy Land and Iberia, C.1095-c.1187 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues for a new context for the origins and development of crusading, as an imitation of Christ. For much of the twelfth century the ideals and activities of crusaders were often described in language more normally associated with a monastic rather than a military vocation; like those who took religious vows, crusaders were repeatedly depicted as being driven by a desire to imitate Christ and to live according to the values of the primitive Church. This book argues that the significance of these descriptions has yet to be fully appreciated, and suggests that the origins and early development of crusading should be studied within the context of the "reformation" of professed religious life in the twelfth century, whose leading figures (such as St Bernard of Clairvaux) advocated the pursuit of devotional undertakings modelled on the lives of Christ and his apostles. It also considers topics such as the importance of pilgrimage to early crusading ideology and the relationship between the spiritualityof crusading and the activities of the Military Orders, offering a revisionist assessment of how crusading ideas adapted and evolved when introduced to the Iberian peninsula in c.1120. In so doing, the book situates crusading within a broader context of changes in the religious culture of the medieval West. Dr WILLIAM PURKIS is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.
Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs
Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs write by Thomas W. Smith. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring Latin texts, as well as Old French, Castilian and Occitan songs and lyrics, Remembering the Crusades in Medieval Texts and Songs takes inspiration from the new ways scholars are looking to trace the dissemination and influence of the memories and narratives surrounding the crusading past in medieval Europe. It contributes to these new directions in crusade studies by offering a more nuanced understanding of the diverse ways in which medieval authors presented events, people and places central to the crusading movement. This volume investigates how the transmission of stories related to suffering, heroism, the miraculous and ideals of masculinity helped to shape ideas of crusading presented in narratives produced in both the Latin East and the West, as well as the importance of Jerusalem in the lyric cultures of southern France, and how the narrative arc of the First Crusade developed from the earliest written and oral responses to the venture.
