A History of the Crusades, Volume 1
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A History of the Crusades, Volume 1

The First Hundred Years

  1. 722 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A History of the Crusades, Volume 1

The First Hundred Years

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Maps
  4. Select List of Abbreviations
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. A Note on Transliteration and Nomenclaature
  8. Map I Western Europe and the Mediterranean
  9. I. Western Europe on the Eve of the Crusades
  10. II. Cross and Crescent in the Mediterranean before the First Crusade
  11. A. The Reconquest of Spain before 1095
  12. В. The Italian Cities and the Arabs before 1095
  13. C. The Norman Conquest of Sicily
  14. D. The Pilgrimages to Palestine before 1095
  15. III. The Caliphate and the Arab States
  16. IV. The Ismä'Ilites and the Assassins
  17. V. The Turkish Invasion: The Selchiikids
  18. VI. The Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century
  19. VII. The Councils of Piacenza and Clermont
  20. VIII. The First Crusade: Clermont to Constantinople
  21. IX. The First Crusade: Constantinople to Antioch
  22. X. The First Crusade: Antioch to Ascalon
  23. XI. The Crusade of 1101
  24. XII. The Foundation of the Latin States, 1099-1118
  25. XIII. The Growth of the Latin States, 1118-1144
  26. XIV. Zengi and the Fall of Edessa
  27. XV. The Second Crusade
  28. XVI. The Career of Nür-ad-Dïn
  29. XVII. The Latin States under Baldwin III and Amalric I, 1143-1174
  30. XVIII. The Rise of Saladin, 1169-1189
  31. XIX. The Decline and Fall of Jerusalem, 1174-1189
  32. Gazetteer and Note on Maps
  33. List of Important Dates and Events
  34. Index