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" A brief history of the crusades / "
Geoffrey Hindley.
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BL
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1049141
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bc459
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English
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Crusades
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Hindley, Geoffrey
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A brief history of the crusades /\ Geoffrey Hindley.
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London :: Robinson,, 2004.
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, ©2003
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xx, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, maps ;; 20 cm
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1841197661
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: 9781841197661
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Originally published in the UK as The crusades by Constable, 2003.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.
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Beginnings 632-1095 -- The First Crusade 1095-1099 -- Life and politics in a multicultural world -- The Second Crusade : disaster on the road to Damascus -- Turk and Kurd : heroes of Islam -- Women and an alternative feudalism -- Loss of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade 1187-1192 -- The Fourth Crusade : the Latin conquest of Constantinople and the scandal of Christendom -- Heathen, heretics and children -- Triumphs of an excommunicated emperor -- The failures of a saint -- Acre and after -- Chivalry in action and Nicopolis "The last crusade" -- The lingering decline of a flawed ideal -- Epilogue : the aftermath -- Appendix I: the Popes, from Gregory VII to Sixtus V -- Appendix II: Rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem -- Appendix III: Ayyubid dynasty--rulers of Egypt -- Appendix IV: Byzantine Emperors at the time of the first Crusades -- Appendix V: Ottoman princes and sultans 1300-1566 -- Appendix VI: Western emperors 1056-1555.
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"Many people saw the Crusades as pilgrimages, many believed they were doing the will of God, and many too went for the booty. This was an institution that for more than five centuries punctuated European history, troubled Christian consciences and embittered Muslim attitudes towards the West, Geoffrey Hindley takes us from the Middle East and Muslim Spain to the pagan Baltic when 'Crusaders' reclaimed or extended Europe's frontiers, and offers lively portraits of major personalities who took part, from Godfrey of Bouillon, the first Latin ruler of Jerusalem, to Etienne the visionary French peasant boy who inspired the tragic 'Children's Crusade'." "Addressing aspects rarely considered, Hindley's penetrating study sheds light on some of the most pressing issues of religious division and shows how the Crusades helped to shape Europe, the modern world and relations between Christian and Muslim countries to this day."--Jacket.
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Crusades.
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Crusades.
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909.07
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D157.H56 2004
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