The First Crusade
Out of Print
, first published in 2005, is justly acclaimed as the most complete and fascinating account of the historic journey to save the Holy Land from the infidel.
- A narrative history of the First Crusade, from the call to Crusade in Europe, to the journey to the Holy Lands, to the siege and capture of Jerusalem
- The abridgement makes accessible to a wider readership one of the most compelling historical narratives
Reviews & endorsements
'This is one of history's most extraordinary episodes made extraordinarily real. Written by an expert blessed with lucidity and styles … a story that has everything.' The Church Times
'It reads magnificently … as an example of sustained and intelligent narrative it could hardly be bettered. Sir Steven's great achievement was to make a complicated subject appear simple and then to write it up beautifully … No one is likely to surpass Sir Steven's powers of synthesis or the masterly way he writes.' History Today
'This abridgement, first published in 1980 has kept all the essential information and ease of style which marked the larger version.' Contemporary Reviews
Product details
February 2005Paperback
9780521611480
208 pages
215 × 140 × 15 mm
0.247kg
Unavailable - out of print
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Table of Contents
- 1. The reign of antichrist
- 2. The pilgrims of Christ
- 3. Confusion in the East
- 4. Holy peace and Holy war
- 5. The summoning
- 6. The people's expedition
- 7. The German Crusade
- 8. The Princes and the Emperor
- 9. The campaign in Asia Minor
- 10. Armenian interlude
- 11. Before the walls of Antioch
- 12. The possession of Antioch
- 13. The road to Jerusalem
- 14. The triumph of the cross.
