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Author : Jason T. Roche
Release : 2008
Genre : Crusades
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Book Synopsis Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147 by : Jason T. Roche
Download or read book Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147 written by Jason T. Roche. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason T. Roche
Release : 2021
Genre : Crusades
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Book Synopsis The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany by : Jason T. Roche
Download or read book The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany written by Jason T. Roche. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first work of history dedicated to the crusade of King Conrad III of Germany (1146-49), emperor-elect of the western Roman Empire and the most powerful man yet to assume the Cross. Even so, many of the people following the king on the Second Crusade were dead before they reached Constantinople and their ranks were devastated in Anatolia. Yet he went on to join with his fellow kings, Louis VII of France and Baldwin III of Jerusalem, in an attempt to capture the city of Damascus, the most powerful Muslim stronghold in southern Syria. Their unsuccessful attack lasted just five days. The recriminations for the many privations and problems the Germans suffered and encountered in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer were long and loud and have echoed down the ages: German indiscipline and poor leadership, Byzantine deceit and duplicity, and the self-serving interests of a Latin Jerusalemite nobility were and still are blamed for the various failings of the expedition. Scrutinising the original source evidence to an unprecedented degree and employing a range of innovative, multi-disciplinary approaches this work challenges the traditional and more recent historiography at every turn leading to a significantly clearer and fundamentally different understanding of the expedition's complex and much maligned history.
Author : Neil Christie
Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Vrbes Extinctae by : Neil Christie
Download or read book Vrbes Extinctae written by Neil Christie. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection consider specific examples and case studies of 'lost' classical cities from across the many Roman provinces in order to help understand why some 'failed' and were subsequently abandoned. Bringing together both established and rising international scholars to share views on and findings from excavations and surveys of 'failed' towns, this volume has much to offer scholars of Roman, late antique and early medieval archaeology, urban scholars and ancient historians.
Author : Jason T. Roche
Release : 2015
Genre : Bernardus, Claraevallensis
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Book Synopsis The Second Crusade by : Jason T. Roche
Download or read book The Second Crusade written by Jason T. Roche. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal article published by Giles Constable in 1953 focused on the genesis and expansion in scope of the Second Crusade with particular attention to what has become known as the Syrian campaign. His central thesis maintained that by the spring of 1147 the Church viewed and planned the Second Crusade a general Christian offensive against the Baltic pagan Wends and the Muslims of the Iberian Peninsula and the Holy Land. His work remains extremely influential and provides the framework for the recent major works published on this extraordinary mid twelfth-century phenomenon. This volume aims to readdress scholarly predilections for concentrating on the venture in the Holy Land and for narrowly focusing on the accepted targets of the crusade. It aims instead to place established, contentious, and new events and concepts associated with the enterprise in a wider ideological, chronological, geopolitical, and geographical context.
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Release : 2018-06-05
Genre : History
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Download or read book Louis VII and His World written by . This book was released on 2018-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis VII and His World examines a lesser-known yet significant Capetian monarch and his role in the twelfth century. Its chapters focus upon the king’s military leadership, political administration, his relationship with the Victorine order of canons and his connection to other important events, people and institutions of the age. Edited by Michael Bardot and Laurence W. Marvin, this work provides a more nuanced image of Louis VII and his critical role in the medieval French monarchy’s ascendancy. The essays contained in this volume illuminate the myriad ways this under-studied ruler shaped the Capetian realm and enhances our understanding of western monarchy, warfare, political administration, social history and the twelfth-century European world. Contributors are Michael Bardot, Marshall E. Crossnoe, Michael R. Evans, John D. Hosler, Steven Isaac, William Chester Jordan, Amy Livingstone, Laurence W. Marvin and Yves Sassier.
