A History of the Crusades, Band 1Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1969 - 707 Seiten The six volumes of A History of the Crusades will stand as the definitive history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Moslem, and Christian perspectives, and containing a wealth of information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. |
Inhalt
The First Crusade Constantinpole to Antioch | 280 |
The First Crusade Antioch to Ascalon | 308 |
The Crusade of 1101 | 343 |
The Foundation of the Latin States 10991118 | 368 |
The Growth of the Latin States 11181144 | 410 |
Zengi and the Fall of Edessa | 449 |
The Second Crusade | 463 |
The Career of NüradDīn | 513 |
| 54 | |
| 68 | |
The Caliphate and the Arab States | 81 |
The Ismāᶜīlites and the Assassins | 99 |
The Turkish Invasion the Selchükids | 135 |
The Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century | 177 |
The Councils of Piacenza and Clermont | 220 |
The First Crusade Clermont to Constantinople | 253 |
The Latin States under Baldwin III and Amalric I 11431174 | 528 |
The Rise of Saladin 11691189 | 563 |
The Decline and Fall of Jerusalem 11741189 | 590 |
Important Dates and Events | 622 |
Gazetteer and Note on Maps | 626 |
Index | 667 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Albert of Aix Aleppo Alexius Amalric Antioch Arabic Armenian army Arslan Artukid Ascalon Assassins attack Baldwin bishop Bohemond Byzantine Byzantium caliph campaign captured castle chapter Christian chroniclers church classical Comnenus Conrad Constantinople count county of Edessa croisades crusaders Damascus death defeated east Edessa Egypt Egyptian eleventh century emir emperor empire enemy expedition Fatimid feudal fief forces fortress France Frankish Franks French Fulcher Fulcher of Chartres garrison German Gesta Godfrey Greek Hagenmeyer holy Islam Ismailite Italian Italy Jerusalem Joscelin king kingdom knights land Latin leaders lord Manuel medieval miles military Moslem Mosul Norman Nur-ad-Din Palestine papal Paris patriarch Pechenegs pilgrims pope port princes raids Raymond Raymond of Aguilers region returned Ridvan river Robert Saladin Saracens Selchükid sent Shaizar Sicily siege sultan surrender Syria Syrie Tancred Tell Bashir territory Tiberias town Tripoli troops Tughtigin Turkish Turkomans Turks Urban vassals village William of Tyre Zengi
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xxvi - Systeme de translitteration de 1'alphabet arabe conseille aux auteurs : ', b, t, th, j, h, kh, d, dh, r, z, s, sh, s, d, t, z,', gh, f, q, k, 1, m, n, h, w, y, a, u, i, a, u, i.
Seite 239 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Seite 245 - ... mountain peaks, is too narrow for your large population; nor does it abound in wealth; and it furnishes scarcely food enough for its cultivators. Hence it is that you murder and devour one another, that you wage war, and that frequently you perish by mutual wounds.
Seite 202 - It is not through hatred and envy of the rich that we take these measures, but for the protection of the small and the safety of the empire as a whole. . . . The extension of the power of the strong . . . will bring about the irreparable loss of the public good, if the present law does not bring a check to it. For it is the many, settled on the land, who provide for the general needs, who pay the taxes and furnish the army with its recruits. Everything falls when the many are •wanting.
Seite 182 - So long as the emperor of the Romans is at peace with the Pechenegs, neither Russians nor Turks can come upon the Roman dominions by force of arms, nor can they exact from the Romans large and inflated sums in money and goods as the price of peace, for they fear the strength of this nation which the emperor can turn against them while they are campaigning against the Romans. For the Pechenegs, if they are leagued in friendship with the emperor and won over by him through letters and gifts, can easily...
Seite 242 - Oh, what reproaches will be charged against you by the Lord Himself if you have not helped those who are counted, like yourselves, of the Christian faith! Let those who have been accustomed to make private war against the faithful carry on to a successful issue a war against infidels, which ought to have been begun ere now. Let those who for a long time have been robbers now become soldiers of Christ. Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now fight against barbarians, as they ought.
Seite 59 - By the grace of God and St. Peter, duke of Apulia, Calabria, and hereafter of Sicily;" and it was the labour of twenty years to deserve and realise these lofty appellations.
Seite 231 - ... ransomed for excessive sums, or tormented there by the three evils, starvation, thirst, and cold, or allowed to perish by unseen death. He also saw holy places violated, monasteries and villas destroyed by fire, and not a little human suffering, both the divine and the human being held in derision. When he heard, too, that interior parts of Romania were held oppressed by the Turks, and that Christians were subjected to destructive and savage attacks, he was moved by compassionate pity; and, prompted...
Seite 244 - Let therefore hatred depart from among you, let your quarrels end, let wars cease, and let all dissensions and controversies slumber. Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre; wrest that land from the wicked race, and subject it to yourselves. That land which, as the Scripture says, 'floweth with milk and honey' was given by God into the possession of the children of Israel.
Seite 241 - But the Pope added at once that another trouble, not less, but still more grievous than that already spoken of, and even the very worst, was besetting Christianity from another part of the world. He said: "Since, O sons of God, you have promised the Lord to maintain peace more earnestly than heretofore in your midst, and faithfully to sustain the rights of Holy Church, there still remains for you, who are newly aroused by this divine correction, a very necessary work, in which you can show the strength...
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