THE SECOND CRUSADE: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom

Jonathan Phillips

ISBN 10: 0300112742 / ISBN 13: 9780300112740

Editore: Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007

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364p. A black hardcover ex-library book in original binding. Faint label residue on spine. Label, stamp, and pasted-in jacket panelst on endpapers. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight.

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• Titolo: THE SECOND CRUSADE: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom
• Editore: Yale University Press, New Haven
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300112742
• ISBN 13: 9780300112740
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Fair
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Medieval Studies

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History, Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published extensively on the subject, including The Crusades, 1095?1197 and The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople. He lives in Berkshire, UK.