| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 362 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Aljamas -- The Americas -- Attacks on Jews -- Byzantine-Latin relations -- Children's and Shepherds' Crusades -- Convivencia -- Crusader States -- Defining moment -- Disillusionment -- Economic motives -- Ethical perspectives -- Fifth Crusade -- First Crusade -- Fourth Crusade -- Gregory VII -- Inventing the crusades -- Jihad -- Louis IX -- Maritime states -- Military orders -- Military strategy -- Missionary activity -- The Mongols -- Muslims -- Orientalization -- The Papacy -- Peter the Hermit -- Political crusades -- Popular crusades -- Reconquista -- Saladin and Richard I -- Third crusade -- Traditionalists and Pluralists -- Treatment of Jews -- Urban II -- Vow redemption -- Western imperialism. |
| Summary |
Addresses heavily debated questions by offering different critical perspectives on major historical events, drawn from all time periods and from all parts of the globe. This volume covers the Crusades, 1095-1291. Provides students with an enhanced understanding of events only summarized in history texts, helps stimulate critical thinking and provides ideas for papers and assignments. |
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Crusades.
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Crusades -- First, 1096-1099.
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Crusades -- Second, 1147-1149.
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Crusades -- Third, 1189-1192.
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Crusades -- Later, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries.
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Crusades -- Fourth, 1202-1204.
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Crusades -- Fifth, 1218-1221.
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Crusades -- Sixth, 1228-1229.
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Crusades -- Seventh, 1248-1250.
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Crusades -- Eighth, 1270.
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Children's Crusade, 1212.
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| Added Author |
Abate, Mark T., editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History in dispute, Vol. 10. Detroit : St. James Press, c2003 9781558624542 |
| ISBN |
9781558627147 (electronic book) |
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1558627146 (electronic book) |
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9781558624542 |
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1558624546 |
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