The Social Structure of the First Crusade - 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 Social Structure of the First Crusade write by Conor Kostick. This book was released on 2008-05-31. The Social Structure of the First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The First Crusade (1096 – 1099) was an extraordinary undertaking. Because the repercussions of that expedition have rippled on down the centuries, there has been an enormous literature on the subject. Yet, unlike so many other areas of medieval history, until now the First Crusade has failed to attract the attention of historians interested in social dynamics. This book is the first to examine the sociology of the sources in order to provide a detailed analysis of the various social classes which participated in the expedition and the tensions between them. In doing so, it offers a fresh approach to the many debates surrounding the subject of the First Crusade.
The Social Structure of the First Crusade
The Social Structure of the First Crusade - 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 Social Structure of the First Crusade write by Conor Kostick. This book was released on 2008. The Social Structure of the First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The First Crusade (1096-1099) was an extraordinary undertaking, the repercussions of which have reached down to the present day. This book re-examines the sources to provide a detailed analysis of the various social classes that participated in the expedition, and the tensions between them.
Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century
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.
Encountering Islam on the First Crusade
Encountering Islam on the First Crusade - 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 Encountering Islam on the First Crusade write by Nicholas Morton. This book was released on 2016-07-14. Encountering Islam on the First Crusade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The First Crusade (1095–9) has often been characterised as a head-to-head confrontation between the forces of Christianity and Islam. For many, it is the campaign that created a lasting rupture between these two faiths. Nevertheless, is such a characterisation borne out by the sources? Engagingly written and supported by a wealth of evidence, Encountering Islam on the First Crusade offers a major reinterpretation of the crusaders' attitudes towards the Arabic and Turkic peoples they encountered on their journey to Jerusalem. Nicholas Morton considers how they interpreted the new peoples, civilizations and landscapes they encountered; sights for which their former lives in Western Christendom had provided little preparation. Morton offers a varied picture of cross cultural relations, depicting the Near East as an arena in which multiple protagonists were pitted against each other. Some were fighting for supremacy, others for their religion, and many simply for survival.
Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221
Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221 - 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 Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221 write by James M. Powell. This book was released on 2010-08-03. Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213-1221 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade's historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as the degree of popular interest in the crusades, the religious climate of the period, the social structure of the membership of the crusade, and the effects of the recruitment effort on the outcome.
