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The First Crusade - The Call from the East (Paperback)
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The First Crusade - The Call from the East (Paperback)
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List price R672
Loot Price R565
Discovery Miles 5 650
You Save R107 (16%)
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According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation
of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of
western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the rising menace
of Islam. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to
the east of Rome? In this groundbreaking book, countering nearly a
millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the untold
history of the First Crusade. Nearly all historians of the First
Crusade focus on the papacy and its willing warriors in the West,
along with innumerable popular tales of bravery, tragedy, and
resilience. In sharp contrast, Frankopan examines events from the
East, in particular from Constantinople, seat of the Christian
Byzantine Empire. The result is revelatory. The true instigator of
the First Crusade, we see, was the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who
in 1095, with his realm under siege from the Turks and on the point
of collapse, begged the pope for military support. Basing his
account on long-ignored eastern sources, Frankopan also gives a
provocative and highly original explanation of the world-changing
events that followed the First Crusade. The Vatican's victory
cemented papal power, while Constantinople, the heart of the
still-vital Byzantine Empire, never recovered. As a result, both
Alexios and Byzantium were consigned to the margins of history.
From Frankopan's revolutionary work, we gain a more faithful
understanding of the way the taking of Jerusalem set the stage for
western Europe's dominance up to the present day and shaped the
modern world.
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