TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frankopan,Peter
TI  - The First Crusade: the call from the East 
SN  - 978-0-674-05994-8
U1  - 956.0666 20A
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge (Mass.)
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Crusades
KW  - First, 1096-1099
KW  - Alexius
KW  - I Comnenus
KW  - Emperor of the East
KW  - 1048-1118
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - History
KW  - Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118
N1  - Notes bibliogr; Europe in crisis -- The recovery of Constantinople -- Stability in the East -- The collapse of Asia Minor -- On the brink of disaster -- The call from the East -- The response of the west -- To the imperial city -- First encounters with the enemy -- The struggle for the soul of the crusade -- The crusade unravels -- The consequences of the First Crusade
N2  - According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II's instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade's untold history
ER  -