The Crusades : a history / [print]
Jonathan Riley-Smith.
- Third edition.
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, (c)2014.
- xix, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Introduction: The crusades and history 1. Holy and penitential warfare 2. The birth of the crusading movement: The preaching of the First Crusade 3. The course of the First Crusade 4. The holy places and the patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch 5. Settlement, government and defence of the Latin East, 1097-1187 6. Crusading in adolescence, 1102-87 7. Crusading comes of age, 1187-1229 8. Crusading in maturity, 1229-c. 1291 9. The Latin East, 1192-c. 1291 10. The variety of crusading, c. 1291-1523 11. The lingering death of the crusading movement, 1523-1892 Modern Biographical Essay Themes Maps
The old consensus -- Traditionalism -- Materialism -- A 'Golden Age' followed by doldrums -- Early signs of revival: The history of the Latin East -- Alternatives to traditionalism -- The challenge to materialism -- Different perceptions. Holy warfare -- Penitential warfare. The casus belli -- Pope Urban II -- A war of liberation -- A penitential war-pilgrimage -- Jerusalem -- Crusaders as penitents -- The response -- Pogroms and anti-Judaism. The condition of Isalm -- The first wave -- The second wave: The march to Constantinople -- The second wave: Constantinople to Antioch -- The second wave: The siege of Antioch and its aftermath -- The second wave: The liberation of Jerusalem -- The achievement of the second wave -- The third wave -- Developments in the idea of crusading. The founding of the settlements -- The embellishment of the holy places -- The establishment of the Latin Church -- The Latin Church after 1111 and relations with the indigenous -- The contribution of the Latin Church -- The military orders. Countryside and town -- The legal status of the indigenous -- Administration -- The crown and the lords -- Baldwin I to Baldwin IV -- The defence of the settlements -- The Battle of Hattin and the loss of Jerusalem. Crusaders or pilgrims -- The early crusades of the twelfth century -- The Second Crusade -- Low morale -- The development of traditions. The Third Crusade -- The crusade of 1197 -- Pope Innocent III -- The Fourth Crusade -- The Baltic crusades -- The crusade against Markward of Anweiler -- The Albigensian Crusade -- Crusading in the Iberian peninsula -- The Children's Crusade -- The preaching of the Fifth Crusade -- The course of the Fifth Crusade -- The crusade of Frederick II. Crusading thought, privileges and propaganda in the mid-thirteenth century -- Taxation -- The Barons' Crusade -- The first crusade of St. Louis -- Crusading in Prussia and Livonia -- The first crusades against the Mongols -- Crusading in Iberia -- Crusades against heretics -- Political crusades -- Reactions to the diversification of crusading -- The second crusade of St. Louis -- Pope Gregory X -- The failure to launch a great crusade after 1276 Cilician Armenia -- Cyprus -- Greece -- The Italians -- The Ayyubids -- The settlers' knowledge of Muslim politics -- Antioch-Tripoli -- Constitutional conflict in the kingdom of Jerusalem -- The Mamluks -- Changes to the Asiatic trade routes -- The conquests of Baybars -- The destruction of the settlements in Palestine and Syria. The range of options -- Crusade theoreticians -- The fall of the Templars -- The Teutonic Knights in Prussia and Livonia -- The Hospitallers of St. John on Rhodes -- Features of hte order-states -- Cyrpus -- Greece -- Crusading in Iberia, 1302-54 -- Crusading in Italy, 1302-78 -- Crusading to the East in the aftermath of the fall of Acre -- Crusading to the East, 1323-60, and the emergence of leagues -- Peter I of Cyprus -- Concern about the Turks -- Crusades engendered by the Great Schism -- The crusades of Mahdia and Nicopolis -- Crusading against the Turks, 1397-1413 -- The Hussite crusades -- The crusade of Varna -- Reactions to the loss of Constantinople, the modernization of crusading and the reappearance of peasant armies -- The conquest of Granada and the invasion of North Africa -- Crusade plans, 1484-1522. The Reformation -- Religio-military orders -- North Africa -- The eastern theatre -- The Hospitallers of St. John and Malta -- Para-crusading and pseudo-crusading in the age of Imperialism -- The last crusaders -- The modern Islamic counter-crusade -- Obliteration. Definition -- Crusade ideas -- Preaching crusades -- Liturgy -- Crusade literature -- Recruitment and motivation -- Women -- Finance -- Warfare by land and sea (including warfare in the crusade settlements) -- The Byzantine Greeks -- The Jews -- The Muslims -- The Mongols -- The Crusades to the East -- The First Crusade -- The Second Crusade -- The Third Crusade -- The Fourth Crusade -- The Children's Crusade -- The Fifth Crusade -- The Barons' Crusade -- The crusades of St. Louis (Louis IX of France) -- Pope Gregory X and the crusades -- The later crusades, 1274 onwards -- Crusading in other Theatres of War -- Iberia -- The Baltic and the northeastern Crusades -- Crusades against heretics and opponents of the Church -- The nineteenth century -- The Latin settlements on the Levantine mainland -- Edessa -- Cilician Armenia -- Antioch-Tripoli -- Jerusalem -- Trade -- The Latin patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch -- Art and architecture -- Cyprus -- Greece -- The military orders -- General -- The Knights Templar -- The Knights Hospitaller of St. John -- The Teutonic Order -- The Iberian Orders -- Lesser military orders -- Sources in English translation -- Western sources for the Crusades -- The Latin East: Antioch, Tripoli, Jerusalem -- Cyprus and Greece -- The military orders -- Greek sources -- Arab sources -- Hebrew sources. Theatres of war -- Europe and the Near East, 1094-1291 -- Palestine, Syria, Cilicia, Cyprus and Egypt -- Jerusalem in the twelfth century -- South west France and the Iberian Peninsula -- The Mediterranean sea lanes -- Greece, Thrace and Western Asia Minor -- Europe and the Near East, 1292-1798 -- The Baltic region -- Italy -- North Africa.
"The Crusades: A History is the definitive account of a key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the subject, explores the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading and the crusaders themselves, producing a textbook that is as accessible as it is comprehensive. This exciting new third edition includes: - Substantial new material on crusade theory, historiography and translated texts - An expanded scope that extends the text to cover the decline of crusading in the nineteenth century - Valuable pedagogical features, such as a revised bibliography, maps, illustrations and a brand new chronology This book is essential reading for all students and scholars seeking to understand the Crusades and their significance in world history."--Publisher description.