Giles Constable

Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together revised and up-dated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on crusading in the 12th century, along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. Together they show the range and depth of the crusading movement at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351947084
• Artikelnr.: 49355994

Autorenporträt

Giles Constable is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The historiography of the crusades
The cross of the crusaders
Medieval charters as a source for the history of the crusades
The financing of the crusades
The place of the crusader in medieval society
The military orders
Cluny and the First Crusade
Early crusading in Eastern Germany: the Magdeburg charter of 1107/8
The three lives of Odo Arpinus: Viscount of Bourges, crusader, monk of Cluny
The Second Crusade as seen by contemporaries
Two notes on the Anglo-Flemish crusaders of 1147-8
Crusading project of 1150
The Fourth Crusade
Appendices: The terminology of crusading
The numbering of the crusades
Indexes.