Crusades - A Reader

Informationen zum Autor S.J. Allen is a faculty member in Arts and Humanities at Open University in the UK. Emilie Amt is the Hildegarde Pilgram Professor of History at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Klappentext This long-anticipated new edition of The Crusades: A Reader features a chapter that addresses the history of perceptions of the crusades in the modern period, from David Hume and William Wordsworth to World War I political cartoons and crusading rhetoric circulating after 9/11. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Background and Origins 2. The First Crusade 3. The Crusader States 4. The Second and Third Crusades 5. Setting Out and Returning Home 6. The Age of Innocent III 7. Crusades of the Holy Roman Empire 8. Conflict and Coexistence in Spain 9. Crusades at the Crossroads 10. Modern Perceptions of the Crusades Sources Index of Topics

Product details

• Authors: S. J. Allen, S. J. Amt Allen, S. J. Allen
• Assisted by: S. J. Allen (Editor), Emilie Amt (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2014
• EAN: 9781442608948
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-0894-8
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous