God's war a new history of the crusades / [Texte imprimé] :
Christopher Tyerman
- Pbk. ed.
- Cambridge (Mass.) : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008
- 1 vol. (XVI-1023 p.-[16] p. de pl.) : ill., cartes, couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Notes bibliogr.
The First Crusade. The origins of Christian holy war -- The summons to Jerusalem -- The march to Constantinople -- The road to the Holy Sepulchre -- Frankish Outremer. The foundation of Christian Outremer -- The Latin states -- East is east and east is west: Outremer in the twelfth century -- The Second Crusade. A new path to salvation? Western Christendom and holy war, 1100-1145 -- God's bargain: summoning the Second Crusade -- 'The spirit of the pilgrim God': fighting the Second Crusade -- The Third Crusade. 'A great cause for mourning': the revival of crusading and the Third Crusade -- The call of the Cross -- To the siege of Acre -- The Palestine War, 1191-2 -- The Fourth Crusade. 'Ehud's sharpened sword' -- The Fourth Crusade: preparations -- The Fourth Crusade: diversion -- The expansion of crusading. The Albigensian Crusades, 1209-29 -- The Fifth Crusade, 1213-21 -- Frontier crusades 1: conquest in Spain -- Frontier crusades 2: the Baltic and the North -- The defence of Outremer. Survival and decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the thirteenth century -- The defence of the Holy Land, 1221-44 -- Louis IX and the fall of mainland Outremer, 1244-91 -- The later crusades. The eastern crusades in the later Middle Ages -- The crusade and Christian society in the later Middle Ages