The First Crusade
Frankopan, Peter.
The First Crusade the call from the East / [electronic resource] : Peter Frankopan. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 262 p.) : ill.
"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by the Bodley Head."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Europe in crisis -- The recovery of Constantinople -- Stability in the East -- The collapse of Asia Minor -- On the brink of disaster -- The call from the East -- The response of the west -- To the imperial city -- First encounters with the enemy -- The struggle for the soul of the crusade -- The crusade unravels -- The consequences of the First Crusade.
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban IIs instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusades real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusades untold history.
9780674069022 (electronic bk.) 0674069021 (electronic bk.)
Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1048-1118.
Crusades--First, 1096-1099.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Byzantine Empire--History--Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
Electronic books.
D161.2 / .F74 2012eb
956/.014
The First Crusade the call from the East / [electronic resource] : Peter Frankopan. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xxiii, 262 p.) : ill.
"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by the Bodley Head."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Europe in crisis -- The recovery of Constantinople -- Stability in the East -- The collapse of Asia Minor -- On the brink of disaster -- The call from the East -- The response of the west -- To the imperial city -- First encounters with the enemy -- The struggle for the soul of the crusade -- The crusade unravels -- The consequences of the First Crusade.
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban IIs instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusades real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusades untold history.
9780674069022 (electronic bk.) 0674069021 (electronic bk.)
Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1048-1118.
Crusades--First, 1096-1099.
HISTORY / Middle East / General
Byzantine Empire--History--Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
Electronic books.
D161.2 / .F74 2012eb
956/.014
