Crusading and the Crusader States

by Jotischky; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780582418516
• ISBN10: 0582418518
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book explores the causes of the Christian idea of holy war and the nature of the first European colonial settlement in the near east. Explores how the idea of holy war emerged from the troubled Church of the 11th century, and why Jerusalem and the Holy Land were so important to Europeans Follows the progress of the major crusading expeditions down to 1336, and offers insights into their continuing failure, charting the development of new attitudes towards Islam and the Muslims Covers the first European settlement in the Near East, looking at the hybrid society created by the Crusades in the East - its art and architecture, legal systems, economy and political institutions Uses the most recent research to provide a broad-ranging account of a topic of vital importance for the study of the past and the understanding of the present

Author Biography

Andrew Jotischky is Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University

Table of Contents

List of maps and genealogical tables	vii
Chronology of main events	ix
Preface	xii
Publisher acknowledgements	xv
1 Problems in crusading historiography	1	(22)
What does it mean to study the crusades?	3	(3)
Three historiographical themes	6	(17)
2 The papacy, the knighthood and the eastern Mediterranean	23	(24)
The papacy on the eve of the First Crusade	23	(7)
The western knighthood on the eve of the First Crusade	30	(8)
The eastern Mediterranean on the eve of the crusade	38	(9)
3 Crusade and settlement, 1095-c.1118	47	(26)
Preaching the crusade	47	(7)
The First Crusade, 1096-1102	54	(8)
Political settlement in Jerusalen, 1099-c.1118	62	(5)
Settlement in the north, 1098-1119	67	(6)
4 Politics and war in the Crusader States, 1118-87	73	(30)
Political developments in Outremer, 1118-44	73	(6)
The Military Orders	79	(5)
The Second Crusade, 1145-50	84	(7)
The zenith and nadir of the Latin East, 1153-87	91	(12)
5 The Islamic reaction, 1097-1193	103	(20)
The first generation	103	(5)
Zengi and Nur ad-Din: jihad revived	108	(6)
Saladin and the zenith of jihad	114	(9)
6 Crusader society	123	(32)
Franks and natives: assimilation and marginalisation	123	(11)
The Church and the Crusader States	134	(11)
Art and architecture	145	(4)
Economy and society	149	(6)
7 Recovery in the East, new challenges in Europe: crusading, 1187-1216	155	(27)
The Third Crusade	155	(8)
Problems of leadership and logistics: The Fourth Crusade	163	(7)
Innocent III and the idea and practice of crusading	170	(12)
8 Varieties of crusading from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries	182	(31)
Crusades and holy wars	182	(1)
The Reconquista in Spain, c.1057-1212	183	(10)
The 'political' crusades of the thirteenth century	193	(5)
The northern crusades	198	(8)
Frankish Greece	206	(7)
9 Crusading and the Crusader States in the thirteenth century, 1217-74	213	(24)
The challenge of Egypt: the Fifth Crusade, 1217-21	213	(7)
Frederick II and the kingdom of Jerusalem	220	(6)
Crown and barons in the kingdom of Jerusalem from Hattin to St Louis	226
St Louis, the 'king over the water'	23	(214)
10 The later crusades, 1274-1336	237	(24)
Mongols, Mamluks and the Crusader States	237	(6)
The papacy, crusading and the Holy Land, c. 274-91	243	(5)
The difficulties of crusading in the fourteenth century	248	(7)
The Holy Land in the later medieval mind	255	(6)
Brief biographies	261	(6)
Bibliography	267	(24)
Index	291