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  • Chronicles of the First Crusade

    The story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!'The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages. It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour ... Leer más

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  • The Crusades

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Crusading fervour gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they have fascinated generations ever since, and their legacy of ideas and imagery has resonated through the centuries, inspiring Hollywood movies and ... Leer más

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  • Come organizzare una crociata

    Nel 1190 Riccardo I d'Inghilterra spediva verso la terza crociata diecimila uomini e una flotta di cento navi che, stando alle cronache, ospitava circa cinquemila cavalli. Può sembrare un dettaglio secondario, ma per ogni animale bisognava prevedere una scorta di dodici ferri, ognuno dei quali pesava circa 350 grammi; i sessantamila ferri da cavallo necessari pesavano quindi più di 20 tonnellate. ... Leer más

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  • The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford

    Survival and Renewals

    Modern Hertford is one of Oxford's least famous colleges. Its chief claims to attention are its pioneering egalitarian reforms of its admissions system in the 1960s and 70s, its early embrace of co-residence in 1974, and its deliberate transformation from a poor, obscure, dilapidated, ill-favoured, and introspective conservative backwater to an open, outward-looking, financially secure, and ... Leer más

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  • The World of the Crusades

    A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required ... Leer más

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  • How to Plan a Crusade

    The story of the wars and conquests initiated by the First Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the Pope's calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher Tyerman focuses on something obvious but overlooked: the massive, all-encompassing, and hugely costly business of actually preparing a ... Leer más

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  • The Practices of Crusading

    Image and Action from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or supporters, medieval or modern. In this wide ranging collection of articles spanning thirty years, Christopher Tyerman explores the relationships between action and perception, ambition and practice, ... Leer más

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  • The Debate on the Crusades, 1099–2010

    Series series Issues in Historiography
    David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that ‘the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind’. This is the first book length study of how succeeding generations from the First Crusade in 1099 to the present day have understood, refashioned, moulded and manipulated accounts of these medieval wars of religion to suit ... Leer más

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    How to Plan a Crusade

    Religious War in the High Middle Ages

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    A spirited and sweeping account of how the Crusades really worked―and a revolutionary attempt to rethink how we understand the Middle AgesThe story of the wars and conquests initiated by the first Crusade and its successors is itself so compelling that most accounts move quickly from describing the pope’s calls to arms to the battlefield. In this highly original and enjoyable new book, Christopher ... Leer más

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    The Crusades

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    Crusading fervor gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they have fascinated generations ever since, and their legacy of ideas and imagery has resonated through the centuries, inspiring Hollywood movies and ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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