The Oxford history of the Crusades / / edited by Jonathan Riley-Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783441103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1999; ©1999
• ISBN: 1-383-00304-1; 1-4237-6759-4; 1-280-44460-6; 0-19-154023-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (746 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.7
• Soggetti: Crusades
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; List of Plates; List of Maps; 1. The Crusading Movement and Historians; 2. Origins; 3. The Crusading Movement, 1096-1274; 4. The State of Mind of Crusaders to the East, 1095-1300; 5. Songs; 6. The Latin East, 1098-1291; 7. Art in the Latin East, 1098-1291; 8. Architecture in the Latin East, 1098-1571; 9. The Military Orders, 1120-1312; 10. Islam and the Crusades, 1096-1699; 11. The Crusading Movement, 1274-1700; 12. The Latin East, 1291-1669; 13. The Military Orders, 1312-1798; 14. Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries15. Revival and Survival; Chronology; Further Reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. - ;Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. 'makes the results of the recent academic study of the Crusades accessible to a wide section of ; the general public and succeeds in conveyin