The Crusades

by Jaspert; Nikolas

• ISBN13: 9780415359672
• ISBN10: 0415359678
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This German-to-English translation of a highly successful book is a clear, approachable, student-friendly introduction to the history of the crusades.With a long chronological span, from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, and with a wide geographical coverage of the whole of Europe and some of the Middle East, The Crusades is clear, concise and more wide-ranging than any other single volume works.Taking recent scholarship into account, and using boxes, case studies, marginal directions and chronologies at the beginning of each chapter, the book is well laid out and easy to follow.Providing a fine overview of the crusade movement, students of all university levels will find this packed with incredibly useful information, and will return again and again to this invaluable historical resource.

Author Biography

Nikolas Jaspert is a Professor of Medieval History at Ruhr-Universitat Bochum.

Table of Contents

Author's foreword	vii
Author's foreword to the English edition	ix
Maps	x
1 The background	1	(34)
Christendom, Islam, and the pagan lands in the late eleventh century	2	(11)
Holy war, knighthood, and pilgrimage	13	(10)
Papacy, piety, and indulgence	23	(12)
2 The crusades in the Near East	35	(47)
The First Crusade	36	(11)
The crusades of the twelfth to fifteenth centuries	47	(14)
Practice, theory, and critique of crusading	61	(10)
The crusades from the Muslim perspective	71	(11)
3 The crusader lordships	82	(32)
Secular rule	83	(12)
Christians, Muslims, and Jews	95	(9)
The Churches of Palestine	104	(10)
4 The European crusades	114	(30)
The Iberian Peninsula	115	(10)
The Baltic lands	125	(9)
Enemies within	134	(10)
5 The military religious orders	144	(22)
Foundations and beginnings of the military religious orders	145	(9)
The military orders in Palestine, on the Iberian Peninsula, and in the Baltic	154	(12)
6 The aftermath	166	(6)
The heritage of the crusades	166	(6)
Select bibliography	172	(11)
Index	183