God's War: A New History of the Crusades

1224 Pages·2009·9.52 MB·English

by  Christopher Tyerman

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GOD’S WAR
‘A magisterial new history of the crusades… God’s War is rich is
reassessments of individuals and institutions involved’
The Times Literary Supplement
‘A timely reminder of what lies behind current Muslim images of
westerners… you will not find a saner or more balanced guide to all this
than God’s War’ Irish Times
‘Told with passion and academic flair, Tyerman’s definitive and
engrossing chronicle of the Crusades reads like a centuries-old epic of
war, arrogance and the clash of cultures. Its place should be assured on
the bookshelves of all politicians’ Western Mail
‘Confident descriptions, full of insight… written with dry humour’
Sunday Telegraph
‘This generation’s definitive history’ Chicago Tribune
‘A measured focus on the ideas and actions of people so different from
ourselves… Tyerman writes well, sustaining interest as he moves
through all the interwoven plot lines’ Financial Times
‘Displays massive erudition and patient synthesis… surely reflects the
state of historical knowledge about the Crusades better than any other
book’ New York Sun
‘Writes fluently and well… a serious, competent and well-written survey’
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher Tyerman is a Fellow in History at Hertford College, Oxford,
and a lecturer in Medieval History at New College, Oxford. He is the
author of England and the Crusades, The Invention of the Crusades and The
Crusades: A Very Short Introduction.
CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN
God’s War
A New History of the Crusades
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Maps 1 to 17 and 21 to 23 by Reg Piggott are reproduced by permission
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EISBN: 978–0–141–90431–3
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Europe and the Mediterranean
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