The Crusades, c.1071–c.1291

by Jean Richard , Translated by Jean Birrell

• ISBN13: 9780521625661
• ISBN10: 0521625661
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A concise history of the crusades - whose chief goal was the liberation and preservation of the ‘holy places’ of the middle east - from the first calls to arms in the later twelfth century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291. This is the ideal introductory textbook for all students of the crusades. Professor Richard considers the consequences of the crusades, such as the establishment of the Latin east, and its organisation into a group of feudal states, as well as crusading contacts with the Muslim world, eastern Christians, Byzantines, and Mongols. Also considered are the organisation of expeditions, the financing of such expeditionary forces, and the organisation of operations and supply. Jean Richard is one of the world’s great crusader historians and this work, the distillation of over forty years’ research and contemplation, is the only one of its kind in English.

Table of Contents

List of maps	vi
List of genealogical tables	vii
Preface	ix
The beginning of the crusades	1	(18)
The crusade of Urban II and Paschal II	19	(17)
The First Crusade confronts the East	36	(41)
The Holy Land: a new country overseas	77	(47)
From the First to the Second Crusade	124	(46)
Between Byzantium and Saladin: the perils of the Latin East	170	(46)
Crusades of reconquest (1188--1205)	216	(43)
The crusade as an institution	259	(35)
War and diplomacy: the rebuilding of the kingdom of Jerusalem	294	(38)
The turning point of 1250	332	(37)
In the Holy Land: a new Frankish society	369	(39)
The crusade and the Mongols	408	(34)
The end of the Frankish Holy Land	442	(41)
Conclusion	474	(9)
Chronology	483	(5)
Genealogical tables	488	(4)
Sources and bibliography	492	(11)
Index of persons	503