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GOD’S WAR
‘A magisterial new history of the crusades…
‘A timely reminder of what lies behind current Muslim images of westerners… you will not find a saner or more balanced guide to all this than
‘Told with passion and academic flair, Tyerman’s definitive and engrossing chronicle of the Crusades reads like a centuries-old epic of war, arrogance and the clash of cultures. Its place should be assured on the bookshelves of all politicians’
‘Confident descriptions, full of insight… written with dry humour’
‘This generation’s definitive history’
‘A measured focus on the ideas and actions of people so different from ourselves… Tyerman writes well, sustaining interest as he moves through all the interwoven plot lines’
‘Displays massive erudition and patient synthesis… surely reflects the state of historical knowledge about the Crusades better than any other book’
‘Writes fluently and well… a serious, competent and well-written survey’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Christopher Tyerman is a Fellow in History at Hertford College, Oxford, and a lecturer in Medieval History at New College, Oxford. He is the author of
CHRISTOPHER TYERMAN
God’s War
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First published by Allen Lane 2006
Published in Penguin Books 2007
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List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Europe and the Mediterranean
The First Crusade
1 The Origins of Christian Holy War
2 The Summons to Jerusalem
3 The March to Constantinople
4 The Road to the Holy Sepulchre
Frankish Outremer
5 The Foundation of Christian Outremer
6 The Latin States
7 East is East and East is West: Outremer in the Twelfth Century
The Second Crusade
8 A New Path to Salvation? Western Christendom and Holy War 1100–1145
9 God’s Bargain: Summoning the Second Crusade
10 ‘The Spirit of the Pilgrim God’: Fighting the Second Crusade
The Third Crusade
11 ‘A Great Cause for Mourning’: The Revival of Crusading and the Third Crusade
12 The Call of the Cross
13 To the Siege of Acre
14 The Palestine War 1191–2
The Fourth Crusade
15 ‘Ehud’s Sharpened Sword’
16 The Fourth Crusade: Preparations
17 The Fourth Crusade: Diversion
The Expansion of Crusading
18 The Albigensian Crusades 1209–29
19 The Fifth Crusade 1213–21
20 Frontier Crusades 1: Conquest in Spain
21 Frontier Crusades 2: the Baltic and the North
The Defence of Outremer
22 Survival and Decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the Thirteenth Century
23 The Defence of the Holy Land 1221–44
