The First Crusade : the call from the East / Peter Frankopan.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: xxi, 262 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0674059948
- 9780674059948
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 956.014 F834 | Available | 33111006700260 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II's instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade's untold history.
"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.