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The First Crusade [electronic resource] : the call from the East / Peter Frankopan.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 262 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780674069022 (electronic bk.)
  • 0674069021 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: First Crusade.DDC classification:
  • 956/.014 23
LOC classification:
  • D161.2 .F74 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II{u2019}s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade{u2019}s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade{u2019}s untold history.
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"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 II{u2019}s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade{u2019}s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade{u2019}s untold history.

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