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Failed Crusade
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Author : Stephen F. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2001
Failed Crusade written by Stephen F. Cohen and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
In the 1990s, as Russia under Yeltsin began the transition to a market economy, most American Russia-watchers saw an optimistic future ahead. In the early twenty-first century, so-called reform economic policies have left some 70 percent of Russians living near the poverty line -- many embittered, deprived of life savings, welfare subsidies, health care, and job security. What has happened in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union? What led U.S. experts and the media to so seriously misjudge the situation?
Failed Crusade
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Author : Stephen F. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date : 2000
Failed Crusade written by Stephen F. Cohen and has been published by W. W. Norton this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Political Science categories.
Reveals what really happened in Russia following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the complicity of U.S. policy in a great human tragedy.
The Crusades
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Author : Carolyn DeCarlo
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2017-12-15
The Crusades written by Carolyn DeCarlo and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Many modern-day readers would consider Christians a peaceful people, but their history is steeped in war and bloodshed. This book focuses on a series of military campaigns known as the Crusades, during which Christian warriors attempted to regain the Holy Land (Palestine) from Muslim rule. This inclusive text begins with the origins of these campaigns, with reference to the Selijuq Turks' defeat of the Byzantine armies and Pope Urban II's Council at Clermont, and leads readers through seven well-known crusades to their decline and ultimate failure. It also contains an in-depth look at three special orders of knighthood: the Knights Hospitallers, the Knights Templars, and the Teutonic Knights.
The Crusades
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Author : Cherese Cartlidge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Crusades written by Cherese Cartlidge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Aggressiveness categories.
Although the First Crusade began more than nine hundred years ago, Christianity's holy wars against Islam still affect the way these two groups view each other today. This book explores reasons the Crusades failed and the modern-day legacy of the crusading movement.
The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople
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Author : Jonathan Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005-03-29
The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople written by Jonathan Phillips and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-29 with History categories.
In 1202, zealous Western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking terrible devastation. The crusaders spared no one: They raped and massacred thousands, plundered churches, and torched the lavish city. By 1204, one of the great civilizations of history had been shattered. Here, on the eight hundredth anniversary of the sack, is the extraordinary story of this epic catastrophe, told for the first time outside of academia by Jonathan Phillips, a leading expert on the crusades. Knights and commoners, monastic chroniclers, courtly troubadours, survivors of the carnage, and even Pope Innocent III left vivid accounts detailing the events of those two fateful years. Using their remarkable letters, chronicles, and speeches, Phillips traces the way in which any region steeped in religious fanaticism, in this case Christian Europe, might succumb to holy war.
The Second Crusade
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Author : Jonathan Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-08
The Second Crusade written by Jonathan Phillips and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-08 with History categories.
The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. But, to the shock and dismay of a society raised on the triumphant legacy of the First Crusade, only in Iberia did they achieve any success. This book, the first in 140 years devoted to the Second Crusade, fills a major gap in our understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history. Historian Jonathan Phillips draws on the latest developments in Crusade studies to cast new light on the origins, planning, and execution of the Second Crusade, some of its more radical intentions, and its unprecedented ambition. With original insights into the legacy of the First Crusade and the roles of Pope Eugenius III and King Conrad III of Germany, Phillips offers the definitive work on this neglected Crusade that, despite its failed objectives, exerted a profound impact across Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.
The Crusades
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Author : Mike Paine
language : en
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Release Date : 2012-02-03
The Crusades written by Mike Paine and has been published by Oldcastle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-03 with History categories.
The first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II in 1095 and culminated in the capture of Jerusalem from the Muslims four years later. In 1291 the fall of Acre marked the loss of the last Christian enclave in the Holy Land. This Pocket Essential traces the chronology of the Crusades between these two dates and highlights the most important figures on all sides of the conflict. It covers the creation of the kingdom of Jerusalem and the other crusader states and their struggle to survive. It looks at the successes and failures of the Third Crusade and at the legendary figures of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, explores the truth and the myths behind the orders of military monks like the Hospitallers and examines such strange historical events as the Children's Crusade and the crusader sacking of Byzantium in 1204. It also looks at the struggles of the Teutonic Knights against paganism in the Baltic. The book provides the essential information about one of the great unifying, and disunifying, forces of medieval Christendom.
To Follow In Their Footsteps
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Author : Nicholas L. Paul
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-21
To Follow In Their Footsteps written by Nicholas L. Paul and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-21 with History categories.
When the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to Europe bringing with them stories, sacred relics, and other memorabilia, including banners, jewelry, and weapons. In the ensuing decades, the memory of the crusaders' bravery and pious sacrifice was invoked widely among the noble families of western Christendom. Popes preaching future crusades would count on these very same families for financing, leadership, and for the willing warriors who would lay down their lives on the battlefield. Despite the great risks and financial hardships associated with crusading, descendants of those who suffered and died on crusade would continue to take the cross, in some cases over several generations. Indeed, as Nicholas L. Paul reveals in To Follow in Their Footsteps, crusading was very much a family affair. Scholars of the crusades have long pointed to the importance of dynastic tradition and ties of kinship in the crusading movement but have failed to address more fundamental questions about the operation of these social processes. What is a "family tradition"? How are such traditions constructed and maintained, and by whom? How did crusading families confront the loss of their kin in distant lands? Making creative use of Latin dynastic narratives as well as vernacular literature, personal possessions and art objects, and architecture from across western Europe, Paul shows how traditions of crusading were established and reinforced in the collective memories of noble families throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Even rulers who never fulfilled crusading vows found their political lives dominated and, in some ways, directed by the memory of their crusading ancestors. Filled with unique insights and careful analysis, To Follow in Their Footsteps reveals the lasting impact of the crusades, beyond the expeditions themselves, on the formation of dynastic identity and the culture of the medieval European nobility.
The Crusades
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Author : IntroBooks
language : en
Publisher: IntroBooks
Release Date : 2018-02-22
The Crusades written by IntroBooks and has been published by IntroBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Religion categories.
Religion and politics were intertwined with each other in many European empires in the years leading to the Crusades. The Christian Church was going through a power struggle which eventually led to a permanent division which exists till this day. It was known as the East-West Schism. Also called as the Schism of 1054, it marked the division of the church into Roman Catholic churches and Eastern Orthodox churches. This break in the churches occurred because of a difference in viewpoints related to various rituals and rules among Christians, one of the most popular ones being the use of leavened or unleavened bread for the Eucharist. This Schism of 1054 reduced the power and authority of the church among its followers. In an attempt to increase and reinforce the importance of the church, Pope Gregory VII started a reformation which would transform the church from a decentralized religious institution to a centralized one where the Pope held more power and authority.
People Of The First Crusade
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Author : Michael Foss
language : en
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Release Date : 1997
People Of The First Crusade written by Michael Foss and has been published by Arcade Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Civilization, Medieval categories.
Michael Foss tells the stories of these men and women of the First Crusade, often in their own words, bringing the time and events to life. Through these eyewitness accounts the cliches of history vanish, the distinctions between hero and villain blur: the Saracen is as base or noble, as brave or cruel, as the crusader. In that sense, the fateful clash between Christianity and Islam teaches us a lesson for our own time.