God's War

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ISBN: 9780674030701 | 0674030702
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/15/2008

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Tyerman gives a sweeping new vision of one of history's most astounding events: the Crusades. Drawing on all of the most recent scholarship, and told with great verve and authority, "God's War" is the definitive account of a fascinating and horrifying story that continues to haunt our contemporary world.

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List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Europe and the Mediterranean The First Crusade
The Origins of Christian Holy War
The Summons to Jerusalem
The March to Constantinople
The Road to the Holy Sepulchre Frankish Outremer
The Foundation of Christian Outremer
The Latin States
East is East and East is West: Outremer in the Twelfth Century The Second Crusade
A New Path to Salvation? Western Christendom and Holy War 1100-1145
God's Bargain: Summoning the Second Crusade
'The Spirit of the Pilgrim God': Fighting the Second Crusade The Third Crusade
'A Great Cause for Mourning': The Revival of Crusading and the Third Crusade
The Call of the Cross
To the Siege of Acre
The Palestine War 1191-2 The Fourth Crusade
'Ehud's Sharpened Sword'
The Fourth Crusade: Preparations
The Fourth Crusade: Diversion The Expansion of Crusading
The Albigensian Crusades 1209-29
The Fifth Crusade 1213-21
Frontier Crusades 1: Conquest in Spain
Frontier Crusades 2: the Baltic and the North The Defence of Outremer
Survival and Decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the Thirteenth Century
The Defence of the Holy Land 1221-44
Louis IX and the Fall of Mainland Outremer 1244-91 The Later Crusades
The Eastern Crusades in the Later Middle Ages
The Crusade and Christian Society in the Later Middle Ages
Conclusion
Notes
Select Further Reading
Select List of Rulers
Index
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