Chronicles of the Crusades

by Hallam, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781566491938
• ISBN10: 1566491932
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-13
• Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers

Summary

A stunningly illustrated and accessible history of the Crusades from both sides of the war, from the 11th century to the 16th century, focuses on the eyewitness accounts of those who took part. Illustrations.

Table of Contents

Preface	11	(8)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
The Muslim World before 1096	19	(40)
Sunnites and Shi'ites	24	(2)
Cultivation in the Holy Land	26	(6)
The rise of Islam	32	(2)
The jihad and the holy war	34	(2)
Armenia and the crusades	36	(10)
El Cid and the Christian kingdoms of Spain	46	(4)
The Normans in Sicily	50	(2)
Robert Guiscard	52	(7)
The First Crusade 1096--1099	59	(56)
Pope Urban II	64	(2)
Anna Comnena, royal scholar	66	(2)
The People's Crusade and the Jews	68	(8)
The crusader states	76	(6)
How crusaders paid their way	82	(4)
Frankish medicine	86	(8)
Godfrey of Bouillon	94	(6)
Baldwin I, king of Jerusalem	100	(4)
Holy Sepulchre and Holy Lance	104	(11)
The Second Crusade 1147--1149	115	(36)
The Turkish armies	120	(4)
Bernard of Clarivaux	124	(4)
The Wends	128	(6)
The common market of Islam	134	(4)
'We who had been occidentals have become orientals'	138	(2)
Eleanor of Aquitaine	140	(2)
Women crusaders	142	(4)
Nur ad-Din	146	(5)
The Third Crusade 1189--1192	151	(48)
Saladin	156	(8)
Financing the crusades	164	(2)
Holy relics	166	(8)
Frederick Barbarossa	174	(4)
Richard I and Philip II	178	(2)
Food in the Holy Land	180	(4)
The siege of Acre	184	(6)
Muslim fortifications	190	(2)
The Assassins	192	(7)
The Fourth Crusade 1202--1204	199	(48)
Venice and the Venetians	206	(4)
Innocent III	210	(2)
Use an abuse of excommunication	212	(2)
The Comnenus dynasty	214	(2)
The naval power of the city of Venice	216	(4)
Byzantine politics	220	(10)
The Albigensian crusade	230	(6)
Simon of Montfort and the Albigensians	236	(6)
The Children's Crusade	242	(5)
The 13th century Crusades	247	(36)
The Kurds	252	(2)
Templars and Hospitallers	254	(4)
Frederick II	258	(6)
Saint Louis, king of France	264	(4)
The doves of war	268	(4)
Eunuchs	272	(2)
The practice of ransom	274	(2)
Sultan Baybars of Egypt	276	(7)
The last crusades	283	(40)
The end of the Templars	288	(2)
Hospitallers capture Rhodes	290	(6)
Peter of Cyprus the crusading king	296	(2)
Pilgrim traffic and maritime commerce	298	(6)
Tamerlane	304	(4)
The Hussites	308	(2)
Rise of the Mamluks in Egypt	310	(13)
The Mediterranean after 1453	323	(51)
Mehmed the Conqueror	328	(4)
The Ottoman Empire	332	(4)
Hospitallers lose Rhodes	336	(10)
Queen Isabella of Castile	346	(6)
Suleyman the Magnificent	352	(4)
Hospitallers in Malta	356	(2)
The battle of Lepanto	358	(6)
Henry the Navigator	364	(2)
The New World	366	(8)
Biographies	374	(8)
Glossary	382	(2)
Bibliography	384	(3)
Chronicles	387	(4)
Manuscripts	391	(2)
Index	393	(7)
Acknowledgements	400