First Crusade A New History

Name: First Crusade A New History
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ISBN: 9780195189056

ISBN-10: 0195189051

ISBN-13: 9780195189056

Edition: 2005

Authors: Thomas Asbridge

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In The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes, and barbarity on a vast scale. Beginning with the electrifying speech delivered by Pope Urban II on the last Tuesday of November in the year 1095, readers will follow the more than 100,000 men who took up the call from their mobilization in Europe (where great waves of anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of thousands of Jews), to their arrival in Constanstinople, an exotic, opulent city--ten times the size of any city in Europe--that bedazzled the Europeans. Featured in vivid detail are the siege of Nicaea and the pivotal battle for Antioch,…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.29" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.408

Thomas Asbridge is a Reader in Medieval History at Queen Mary University in London, and an internationally renowned expert on the history of the Crusades. He has written and presented a major BBC TV series on the Crusades and a documentary on William Marshal. His acclaimed titles The First Crusade and The Crusades are also available from Simon & Schuster.



Preface


List of Maps


Cast of Characters



Holy War Proclaimed



Afire with Crusading Fever



The Journey to Byzantium



The First Storm of War



Before the Walls of Antioch



Tightening the Screw



To the Edge of Annihilation



Descent into Discord



The Faltering Path



The Holy City



Aftermath


Conclusion


Glossary


Chronology


Notes


Bibliography


Index