The First Crusade

  • The First Crusade: The Call from the East
    By Peter Frankopan

    According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II’s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem.

  • The First Crusade: A New History
    By Thomas S. Asbridge

    Now, in The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes and barbarity on a vast scale.

  • The First Crusade: A New History
    By Thomas S. Asbridge

    The chilling reverberations of the brutal First Crusade still echo in the world today, as revealed in this gripping account of the titanic, three-year adventure. Maps.

  • The First Crusade: Origins and Impact
    By Jonathan P. Phillips

    The First Crusade (1095-9) a mass of armed pilgrims aiming to march 4000 kilometers to the Holy Land to conquer Jerusalem was one of the most remarkable episodes in medieval history.

  • The First Crusade: A New History
    By Thomas Asbridge

    The Pope stated that, in spite of the apparently pacifist message of the New Testament, God actually wanted European knights to wage a fierce and bloody war against Islam and recapture Jerusalem. Thus was the First Crusade born.

  • The First Crusade: A New History
    By Thomas Asbridge

    A history of the First Crusade provides an account of the three-year expedition to the Holy Land, describing the mobilization of the crusaders in Europe, the journey to Constantinople and the Middle East, their struggle against Muslim ...

  • The First Crusade: A Brief History with Documents
    By Jay Carter Rubenstein

    Focusing on the ways in which the First Crusade changed the direction of warfare, religion, and perhaps history itself, First Crusade helps you gain a deeper understanding of the crusading ethos by exploring this time in history through the ...

  • The First Crusade: Origins and Impact
    By Jonathan P. Phillips

    The First Crusade (1095-9) a mass of armed pilgrims aiming to march 4000 kilometers to the Holy Land to conquer Jerusalem was one of the most remarkable episodes in medieval...

  • The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials
    By Edward Peters

    In a greatly expanded second edition, Edward Peters brings together the primary texts that document eleventh-century reform ecclesiology, the appearance of new social groups and their attitudes, the institutional and literary evidence ...

  • The First Crusade: The Call from the East
    By Peter Frankopan

    But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? In this groundbreaking book, countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the untold history of the First Crusade.

  • The First Crusade
    By Peter Frankopan

    本书主要讲了十字军东征的起因和第一次东征的过程.内容包括:危机中的欧洲;重振君士坦丁堡;东方的稳固;小亚细亚的崩溃;山雨欲来;东方的召唤;西方的回应等.

  • The First Crusade
    By Steven Runciman

    , first published in 2005, is justly acclaimed as the most complete and fascinating account of the historic journey to save the Holy Land from the infidel.

  • The First Crusade: A Brief History with Documents
    By Jay Carter Rubenstein

    This volume reveals the ways in which the First Crusade changed the direction of warfare, religion, and perhaps history itself. By highlighting the theme of prophecy, the volume deepens students' understanding of the crusading ethos.

  • The First Crusade: A Brief History with Documents
    By Jay Carter Rubenstein

    This volume reveals the ways in which the First Crusade changed the direction of warfare, religion, and perhaps history itself. By highlighting the theme of prophecy, the volume deepens students' understanding of the crusading ethos.

  • The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eyewitnesses and Participants
    By August C. Krey

    Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their ...