God's War

by Tyerman, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780674030701
• ISBN10: 0674030702
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-15
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

Tyerman gives a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. Drawing on all of the most recent scholarship, and told with great verve and authority, "God's War" is the definitive account of a fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Europe and the Mediterranean The First Crusade

The Origins of Christian Holy War

The Summons to Jerusalem

The March to Constantinople

The Road to the Holy Sepulchre Frankish Outremer

The Foundation of Christian Outremer

The Latin States

East is East and East is West: Outremer in the Twelfth Century The Second Crusade

A New Path to Salvation? Western Christendom and Holy War 1100-1145

God's Bargain: Summoning the Second Crusade

'The Spirit of the Pilgrim God': Fighting the Second Crusade The Third Crusade

'A Great Cause for Mourning': The Revival of Crusading and the Third Crusade

The Call of the Cross

To the Siege of Acre

The Palestine War 1191-2 The Fourth Crusade

'Ehud's Sharpened Sword'

The Fourth Crusade: Preparations

The Fourth Crusade: Diversion The Expansion of Crusading

The Albigensian Crusades 1209-29

The Fifth Crusade 1213-21

Frontier Crusades 1: Conquest in Spain

Frontier Crusades 2: the Baltic and the North The Defence of Outremer

Survival and Decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the Thirteenth Century

The Defence of the Holy Land 1221-44

Louis IX and the Fall of Mainland Outremer 1244-91 The Later Crusades

The Eastern Crusades in the Later Middle Ages

The Crusade and Christian Society in the Later Middle Ages

Conclusion

Notes

Select Further Reading

Select List of Rulers

Index

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