A Brief History of the Crusades: Islam and Christianity in the Struggle for World Supremacy
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1841197661
ISBN 13
9781841197661
OCLC
1530023512
Category
Missionary ( 宣教研究 )
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
300
Subject
D0157
Abstract
Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence? How could a Christian army sack Christian Constantinople in 1204? Why did thousands of ordinary men and women, led by knights and ladies, kings and queens, embark on campaigns of fanatical conquest in the world of Islam? The word 'Crusade' came later, but the concept of a 'war for the faith' is an ancient one. Geoffrey Hindley instructively unravels the story of the Christian military expeditions that have perturbed European history, troubled Christ.
Description
Beginnings 632-1095 -- The First Crusade 1095-1099 -- Life and politics in a multicultural world -- The Second Crusade : disaster on the road to Damascus -- Turk and Kurd : heroes of Islam -- Women and an alternative feudalism -- Loss of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade 1187-1192 -- The Fourth Crusade : the Latin conquest of Constantinople and the scandal of Christendom -- Heathen, heretics and children -- Triumphs of an excommunicated emperor -- The failures of a saint -- Acre and after -- Chivalry in action and Nicopolis "The last crusade" -- The lingering decline of a flawed ideal -- Epilogue : the aftermath -- Appendix I: the Popes, from Gregory VII to Sixtus V -- Appendix II: Rulers of the kingdom of Jerusalem -- Appendix III: Ayyubid dynasty--rulers of Egypt -- Appendix IV: Byzantine Emperors at the time of the first Crusades -- Appendix V: Ottoman princes and sultans 1300-1566 -- Appendix VI: Western emperors 1056-1555.
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