A History of the Crusades, Volume 1Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1969 - 740 pages 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. |
Contents
Foreword | xiii |
Foreword to the Second Edition | xix |
Preface | xxi |
Note on Transliteration and Nomenclature | xxv |
Abbreviations | xxxi |
Western Europe on the Eve of the Crusades | 3 |
Conflict in the Mediterranean before the First Crusade | 31 |
B The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095 | 40 |
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 |
C The Norman Conquest of Sicily | 54 |
D The Pilgrimages to Palestine before 1095 | 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 |
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