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The Crusades Were Pilgrimages For Some, For Others An Excuse To For Pillaging. This Volume Tells Of An Institution That For Over Three Centuries Periodically Disrupted Europeon History, Troubled Christian Consciences And Embittered Muslim Attitudes Towards The West. Chronology Of Jihad And Crusade -- Introduction: What's In A Name? -- 1. Beginnings 632-1095 -- 2. The First Crusade 1095-1099 -- 3. Life And Politics In A Multicultural World -- 4. The Second Crusade: Disaster On The Road To Damascus -- 5. Turk And Kurd: Heroes Of Islam -- 6. Women And An Alternative Feudalism -- 7. Loss Of Jerusalem And The Third Crusade 1187-1192 -- 8. The Fourth Crusade: The Latin Conquest Of Constantinople And The Scandal Of Christendom -- 9. Heathen, Heretics And Children -- 10. Triumphs Of An Excommunicated Emperor -- 11. The Failures Of A Saint -- 12. Acre And After -- 13. Chivalry In Action And Nicopolis 'the Last Crusade' -- 14. The Lingering Decline Of A Flawed Ideal -- Epilogue: The Aftermath -- App. I. The Popes, From Gregory Vii To Sixtus V -- App. Ii. Rulers Of The Kingdom Of Jerusalem -- App. Iii. Ayyubid Dynasty -- Rulers Of Egypt -- App. Iv. Byzantine Emperors At The Time Of The First

Author

Hindley, Geoffrey

Publisher

Constable & Robinson Ltd

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781841195971

Subjects

History, Religion, Humanities