{"product_id":"the-crusades-9781442606234","title":"The Crusades","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the publication of the first edition of The Crusades: A Reader, interest in the Crusades has increased dramatically, fueled in part by current global interactions between the Muslim world and Western nations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAllen and Amt have dusted off the Crusades from the relics shelf of European history and have brought the conflict into a new age of scholarship, making use of a multifaceted, multicultural perspective of great value in our interconnected world where an understanding of cultural context is so vital. -- Comitatus The book's beauty lies in its documentation of relevant and important primary sources from both Christian as well as Muslim sources. Moreover, after documenting the sources it neither judges nor analyses; rather, at the end of almost each document it encourages readers to engage more with it and poses some important questions, such as why, what, how, and when. -- Journal of Human and Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments      Preface to the Second Edition      Introduction      I. Background and Origins      1. The Pilgrimage of Etheria   2. Augustine of Hippo on the Just War   3. The Qur'an   4. al-Baladhuri on Early Muslim Conquests   5. The Pact of Omar   6. Early Indulgences   7. Ibnu Hayyan on Warfare in Spain   8. The Song of Roland   9. Declaration of the Truce of God   10. Matthew of Edessa on the Seljuk Conquests   11. Gregory VII's Call for Assistance to the Greeks      II. The First Crusade      12. Urban II's Call for a Crusade   13. Albert of Aachen on the Peasants' Crusade   14. Solomon bar Samson on the Massacres of Jews   15. Anna Comnena's Alexiad   16. The Deeds of the Franks   17. Letter of Stephen of Blois   18. Anselm of Ribemont on Events at Antioch   19. Ralph of Caen on Divisions among the Crusaders   20. Raymond of Aguilers on the Fall of Jerusalem   21. Letter of Pope Paschal on the Capture of Jerusalem   22 'Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami's The Book of the Jihad   23. Abu l-Muzaffar al-Abiwardi on the Fall of Jerusalem      III. The Crusader States      24. William of Tyre's History   25. Fulcher of Chartres's History   26. Venetian Treaty   27. Laws of the Kingdom of Jerusalem   28. The Travels of Saewulf   29. John of W rzburg's Pilgrim Guide   30. The Travels of Ibn Jubayr   31. Memoirs of Usamah Ibn Munqidh   32. The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela      IV. The Second and Third Crusades      33. Ibn al-Qalanisi on Zengi and Nur ad-Din   34. Ibn al-Athir on the Fall of Edessa   35. Letter of Bernard of Clairvaux   36. Bernard of Clairvaux: In Praise of the New Knighthood   37. The Rule of the Templars    38. Odo of Deuil: The Journey of Louis VII to the East   39. John Kinnamos: The Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus   40. Analyses of the Second Crusade   41. Baha ad-Din's Life of Saladin   42. Imad ad-Din on the Battle of Hattin   43. Roger of Wendover on the Fall of Jerusalem   44. Letters on the Fall of Jerusalem   45. Taxation and Regulations for the Third Crusade   46. Islamic Accounts of the Treatment of Prisoners    47. Accounts of the Third Crusade      V. Setting Out and Returning Home      48. Gerald of Wales on Preaching a Crusade   49. Privileges and Indulgences   50. Personal Arrangements   51. Liturgy for Pilgrims and Crusaders   52. Financial Accounts   53. Travel Information   54. Accounts of Crusader Homecomings    55. Thomas of Froidmont, The Adventures of Margaret of Beverly, a Woman Crusader    56. Crusading Songs      VI. The Age of Innocent III      57. Letters of Innocent III   58. Accounts of the Fourth Crusade   59. Documents on the Sack of Constantinople   60. Bernard of Gui's Manual for Inquisitors   61. William of Tudela's Song of the Cathar Wars   62. Accounts of the Children's Crusade   63. Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council   64. Oliver of Paderborn on the Fifth Crusade      VII. Crusades of the Holy Roman Empire      65. Charter to German Settlers   66. Poem Describing Cistercian Settlement   67. Proclamations of Northern European Crusades   68. Helmold's Chronicle of the Slavs   69. The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia   70. The Rule of the Teutonic Knights   71. Nikolaus von Jeroschin on the Prussian Crusades   72. Philip of Novara on Frederick II's Crusade   73. Frederick II on His Taking of Jerusalem and Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi's Recording of the Event   74. Responses to Frederick II's Crusade      VIII. Conflict and Coexistence in Spain      75. Chronicle of the Cid   76. The Conquest of Lisbon   77. Alfonso VIII's Report on Las Navas de Tolosa   78. Muslim-Christian Treaty   79. Moorish Laws   80. Christian Laws   81. Constitutions of the Order of Merced   82. Expulsion of the Jews from Spain   83. Abu Abdilla Mohammed on the Expulsion of the Muslims      IX. Crusades at the Crossroads      84. Joinville's Life of St. Louis   85. Matthew Paris on the Shepherds' Crusade   86. Ibn Al-Athir on the Mongol Invasion   87. Ibn 'Abd al-Zahir's Biography of Baybars   88. Ludolph von Suchem on the Fall of Acre and Its Aftermath   89. Humbert of Romans on Criticisms of Crusading   90. Ramon Lull's Plan to Convert the Muslims   91. Order for the Arrest of the Templars and Papal Bull Suppressing the Templars   92. John Mandeville on Prester John   93. Letters between Pope Innocent IV and Guyuk Khan   94. Johann Schiltberger on the Nicopolis Crusade   95. Kritovoulos on the Fall of Constantinople   96. Pius II's Commentaries   97. Erasmus On the War against the Turks      X. Modern Perceptions of the Crusades       98. David Hume on the Crusades    99. Edward Gibbon's Evaluation of the Crusades    100. William Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets   101. Michaud, History of the Crusades   102. William Hillary's Call for a New Crusade   103. Sayyid 'Ali Hariri's Book of the Splendid Stories of the Crusades    104. World War I Political Cartoons    105. Sayyid Qutb's Social Justice in Islam and Muhammad Asad's Islam at the Crossroads   106. The Hamas Covenant    107. Pope John Paul II's Statements about Past Christian Actions    108. Crusading Rhetoric after 9\/11    109. Modern Use of Images of Saladin    110. Umej Bhatia's Analysis of the Crusades and Modern Muslim Memory       Sources      Index of Topics","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408347111767,"sku":"9781442606234","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442606234.jpg?v=1730502535","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-crusades-9781442606234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}