The world of the crusades : an illustrated history / Christopher Tyerman.
2019
940.18 T979w 2019
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Title
The world of the crusades : an illustrated history / Christopher Tyerman.
ISBN
0300217390 (hardcover)
9780300217391 (hardcover)
9780300217391 (hardcover)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
xxv, 517 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
940.18 T979w 2019
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1052875584
(OCoLC)1052875584
(OCoLC)1052875584
Summary
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects, from weaponry and military technology to carpentry and shipping, conditioned them. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the material trappings of crusading wars and the objects that memorialized them, in architecture, sculpture, jewelry, painting, and manuscripts. Christopher Tyerman's incorporation of the physical and visual remains of crusading enriches our understanding of how the crusaders themselves articulated their mission, how they viewed their place in the world, and how they related to the cultures they derived from and preyed upon.
Note
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects, from weaponry and military technology to carpentry and shipping, conditioned them. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the material trappings of crusading wars and the objects that memorialized them, in architecture, sculpture, jewelry, painting, and manuscripts. Christopher Tyerman's incorporation of the physical and visual remains of crusading enriches our understanding of how the crusaders themselves articulated their mission, how they viewed their place in the world, and how they related to the cultures they derived from and preyed upon.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: What were the Crusades?
The Mediterranean crisis and the background to the First Crusade
The First Crusade
'The land beyond the sea': Latin Christian lordship in the Levant, 1099-1187
Crusades and the defence of Outremer, 1100-1187
The Third Crusade and the reinvention of crusading, 1187-1198
Reshaping the Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt and the Crusades, 1200-1250
Crusades in Spain
Baltic Crusades
Crusades against Christians
The end of the Jerusalem wars, 1250-1370
The Ottomans
New challenges and the end of crusading
Crusading: our contemporary?
Postscript: Do the Crusades matter?
The Mediterranean crisis and the background to the First Crusade
The First Crusade
'The land beyond the sea': Latin Christian lordship in the Levant, 1099-1187
Crusades and the defence of Outremer, 1100-1187
The Third Crusade and the reinvention of crusading, 1187-1198
Reshaping the Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt and the Crusades, 1200-1250
Crusades in Spain
Baltic Crusades
Crusades against Christians
The end of the Jerusalem wars, 1250-1370
The Ottomans
New challenges and the end of crusading
Crusading: our contemporary?
Postscript: Do the Crusades matter?
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