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Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade

By John France

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521589878, 9780521589871
Open Library ID
OL7747414M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5278472 bytes)
Pages
373\112
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The success of the First Crusade, and its capture of Jerusalem in 1099, has been conventionally explained by its ideological and political motivation. This book looks at the First Crusade primarily as a military campaign and asks why it was so successful. Modern writing about the crusade has tended to emphasize the moral dimension and the development of the idea of the crusade, but its fate was ultimately decided on the field of battle. This book looks at the nature of war at the end of the eleventh century and the military experience of all the contending parties in order to explain its extraordinary success.

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