God's war : a new history of the Crusades /: a new history of the Crusades. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Tyerman.
• Other Names: Tyerman, Christopher
• Contents: List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction : Europe and the Mediterrranean -- -- The First Crusade -- 1. The origins of Christian holy war -- 2. The summons to Jerusalem -- 3. The march to Constantinople -- 4. The road to the Holy Sepulchre -- -- Frankish Outremer -- 5. The foundation of Christian Outremer -- 6. The Latin states -- 7. East is east and east is west : Outremer in the twelfth century -- -- The Second Crusade -- 8. A new path to salvation? : western Christendom and holy war, 1100-1145 -- 9. God's bargain : summoning the Second Crusade -- 10. 'The spirit of the pilgrim God' : fighting the Second Crusade -- -- The Third Crusade -- 11. 'A great cause for mourning' : the revival of crusading and the Third Crusade -- 12. The call of the Cross -- 13. To the siege of Acre -- 14. The Palestine War, 1191-2 -- -- The Fourth Crusade -- 15. 'Ehud's sharpened sword' -- 16. The Fourth Crusade : preparations -- 17. The Fourth Crusade : diversion -- -- The expansion of crusading -- 18. The Albigensian Crusades, 1209-29 -- 19. The Fifth Crusade, 1213-21 -- 20. Frontier crusades 1 : conquest in Spain -- 21. Frontier crusades 2 : the Baltic and the North -- -- The defence of Outremer -- 22. Survival and decline : the Frankish Holy Land in the thirteenth century -- 23. The defence of the Holy Land, 1221-44 -- 24. Louis IX and the fall of mainland Outremer, 1244-91 -- -- The later crusades -- 25. The eastern crusades in the later Middle Ages -- 26. The crusade and Christian society in the later Middle Ages -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select further reading -- Select list of rulers -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 909.07; RELIGION / Islam / History; Crusades; RELIGION / Christianity / History; HISTORY / Europe / Ireland; Middle Eastern History; Medieval History; European History; Crusades; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141904313; 0141904313
• Related ISBNs: 9780140269802; 0140269800
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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