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Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
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Crusaders and Crusading in the Twelfth Century (Paperback)
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Crusading in the twelfth century was less a series of discrete
events than a manifestation of an endemic phenomenon that touched
almost every aspect of life at that time. The defense of
Christendom and the recovery of the Holy Land were widely-shared
objectives. Thousands of men, and not a few women, participated in
the crusades, including not only those who took the cross but many
others who shared the costs and losses, as well as the triumphs of
the crusaders. This volume contains not a narrative account of the
crusades in the twelfth century, but a group of studies
illustrating many aspects of crusading that are often passed over
in narrative histories, including the courses and historiography of
the crusades, their background, ideology, and finances, and how
they were seen in Europe. Included are revised and updated versions
of Giles Constable's classic essays on medieval crusading, along
with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the
Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading
and the numbering of the crusades. They provide an opportunity to
meet some individual crusaders, such as Odo Arpinus, whose
remarkable career carried him from France to the east and back
again, and whose legendary exploits in the Holy Land were recorded
in the Old French crusade cycle. Other studies take the reader to
the boundaries of Christendom in Spain and Portugal and in eastern
Germany, where the campaigns against the Wends formed part of the
wider crusading movement. Together they show the range and depth of
crusading at that time and its influence on the broader history of
the period.
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