Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. A tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews. Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. A tie-in to the PBS...
Includes sections on Alexios I Komnenos emperor ofByzantium, Anna Komnena Byzantine princess, Baha al-Din, Bernard of Clairvaux, Conrad III King of Germany, Egypt, Frederick I(Barbarossa), Frederick II, Innocent III, Louis VII, Louis IX, Philip II, Richard I King of England, Saladin, Urban II.
Distinguished historian Norman Housley explores the staggering logistical challenges of raising, equipping and transporting thousands of Christian combatants...
Includes sections on Art in the Latin East, 1098-1291, Architecture in the Latin East, 1098-1571, The Military Orders, 1120-1312, Islam and the Crusades, 1096-1699, The Crusading Movement, 1274-1700, The Latin East, 1291-1669, The Military Orders, 1312-1798, Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
"This lively comprehensive history provides a wealth of fascinating detail about the Crusades and the politics and personalities behind them. This new edition includes revisions throughout as well as a new Preface and Afterword in which Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to the Islamic world today, making this the standard and authoritative account...
Includes sections on Abbasid Empire, Adelard of Bath, Albumazar, Antioch, astrology, astronomy, Averroes, Baghdad, Constantinople, cosmology, crusades, Euclid, Frederick II, geography, Jerusalem, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, mapmaking, mathematics, Mecca, medicine, Medina, Muhammad, philosophy, Ptolemy, science, Saint Thomas Aquinas, timekeeping, Umayyad Empire.
At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders -- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads -- indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest -- and their violence -- had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders...
