The World of the Crusades : : an Illustrated History
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Introduction: What were the Crusades? -- The Mediterranean crisis and the background to the First Crusade -- The First Crusade -- 'The land beyond the sea': Latin Christian lordship in the Levant, 1099-1187 -- Crusades and the defence of Outremer, 1100-1187 -- The Third Crusade and the reinvention of crusading, 1187-1198 -- Reshaping the Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt and the Crusades, 1200-1250 -- Crusades in Spain -- Baltic Crusades -- Crusades against Christians -- The end of the Jerusalem wars, 1250-1370 -- The Ottomans -- New challenges and the end of crusading -- Crusading: our contemporary? -- Postscript: Do the Crusades matter?
Throughout 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 material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects, from weaponry and military technology to carpentry and shipping, conditioned them. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the material trappings of crusading wars and the objects that memorialized them, in architecture, sculpture, jewelry, painting, and manuscripts. Christopher Tyerman's incorporation of the physical and visual remains of crusading enriches our understanding of how the crusaders themselves articulated their mission, how they viewed their place in the world, and how they related to the cultures they derived from and preyed upon.
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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 517 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0300217390
9780300217391
SUBJECTS
Crusades.
Crusades -- 13th-15th centuries.