France The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000–1714

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-134-19617-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 is a fascinating and accessible survey that places the medieval Crusades in their European context, and examines, for the first time, their impact on European expansion.

Taking a unique approach that focuses on the motivation behind the Crusades, John France chronologically examines the whole crusading movement, from the development of a ‘crusading impulse’ in the eleventh century through to an examination of the relationship between the Crusades and the imperialist imperatives of the early modern period.

France provides a detailed examination of the first Crusade, the expansion and climax of crusading during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the failure and fragmentation of such practices in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Concluding with an assessment of the influence of the Crusades across history, and replete with illustrations, maps, timelines, guides for further reading, and a detailed list of rulers across Europe and the Muslim world, this study provides students with an essential guide to a central aspect of medieval history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

France, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

1. In the beginning

2. The Papal Monarchy and the Invention of the Crusade

3. The First Crusade

4. Crusade and Expansion in the Early Twelfth Century

5. Crusade, Expansion and Check 1144-92

6. The Zenith of the Crusading Movement, 1192-1254

7. Progress and Miscalculation 1254-1337

8. Failure and Fragmentation 1337-1444

9. Towards a New World 1444-1714

10. Perspectives

Appendix I Chronology of events

Appendix II List of rulers

Über Autor(innen)

John France is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Wales, Swansea. His previous publications include Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300 (1999).