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"This new translation offers a faithful yet accessible English-language rendering of the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolomitanorum, the earliest known Latin account of the First Crusade. The exemplar for all later histories and retellings of the First Crusade, it is filled with vivid descriptions of the hardships suffered by the crusaders, with deeds of personal heroism, with courtly intrigues, with betrayal and cowardice, and with a relentless faith that would see the attainment of the desired goal the capture of Jerusalem by the crusaders in 1095. It is also a sweeping tale that swiftly moves from the first preaching of the crusade by Pope Urban II, to the ragtag and ultimately doomed effort of the popular People's Crusade, and then to the more disciplined and concerted campaign by the French and Norman nobility that led to the conquest of the Holy Land by the crusaders. Based on the latest scholarly research, including a substantive introduction that explores the questions surrounding the Gesta and that sets it in its historical context, this definitive translation will bring the First Crusade and its era to life for all readers"--Provided by publisher. "This new translation offers a faithful yet accessible English-language rendering of the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolomitanorum, the earliest known Latin account of the First Crusade. The exemplar for all later histories and retellings of the First Crusade, it is filled with vivid descriptions of the hardships suffered by the crusaders, with deeds of personal heroism, with courtly intrigues, with betrayal and cowardice, and with a relentless faith that would see the attainment of the desired goal: the capture of Jerusalem by the crusaders in 1095. It is also a sweeping tale that swiftly moves from the first preaching of the crusade by Pope Urban II, to the ragtag and ultimately doomed effort of the popular People's Crusade, and then to the more disciplined and concerted campaign by the French and Norman nobility that led to the conquest of the Holy Land by the crusaders. Based on the latest scholarly research, including a substantive introduction that explores the questions surrounding the Gesta and that sets it in its historical context, this definitive translation will bring the First Crusade and its era to life for all readers"--Provided by publisher.

Crusades --- Croisades --- Crusades - First, 1096-1099. --- Crusades -- First, 1096-1099. --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Church history --- Christianity --- Barons' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- First Crusade, 1096-1099 --- Princes' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- Middle Ages, 600-1500

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"Analyzes how chroniclers of the First Crusade attempted to represent the enterprise as a "holy war." Focuses on accounts of miracles, especially the intervention of saints in the battle of Antioch; explores how the chroniclers related the crusade to biblical events"--Provided by publisher.

Crusades --- Miracles --- Croisades --- History. --- Histoire --- History --- Barons' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- First Crusade, 1096-1099 --- Princes' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- Crusades - First, 1096-1099 --- Miracles - History

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This volume examines the relationship between the Capetian monarchs of France and the Crusades, and considers the challenge to political authority that confronted them following their failure to join the early Crusades, and their less-than-impressive involvement in later ones.

Crusades. --- Crusades --- Louis --- Second Crusade, 1147-1149 --- Barons' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- First Crusade, 1096-1099 --- Princes' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- Ludovik --- Luwīs al-Tāsiʻ, --- Louis, --- Ludwig, --- Ludovicus, --- Crusades (First : 1096-1099) --- Crusades (Second : 1147-1149) --- Geschichte 1095-1270 --- History --- Medieval history --- HISTORY / Europe / Medieval --- CE period up to c 1500 --- France --- Kings and rulers. --- Capetian. --- Crusade. --- Louis VI. --- Louis VII. --- Medieval. --- Royal Crusader. --- Suger.

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The success of the First Crusade, and its capture of Jerusalem in 1099, has been conventionally explained in terms of 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 emphasise the moral dimension and the development of the idea of the crusade, but its fate was ultimately decided on the field of battle. Victory in the East 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. It is the first such examination, taking into account all other factors but emphasising the military.

Histoire militaire -- Moyen-Age --- Histoire militaire médiévale --- Krijgsgeschiedenis -- Middeleeuwen --- Krijgsgeschiedenis [Middeleeuwse ] --- Middeleeuwen -- Krijgsgeschiedenis --- Middeleeuwse krijgsgeschiedenis --- Military history [Medieval ] --- Moyen-Age -- Histoire militaire --- -Crusades --- Histoire militaire médiévale --- Crusades --- Military art and science --- 940.181 --- 940.181 Kruistochten --- Kruistochten --- Medieval warfare --- Barons' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- First Crusade, 1096-1099 --- Princes' Crusade, 1096-1099 --- History --- Military history, Medieval --- Croisades --- Art et science militaires --- Histoire --- First, 1096-1099 --- Medieval, 500-1500 --- Crusades - First, 1096-1099 --- Military art and science - History - Medieval, 500-1500. --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- History of Europe --- History of Asia --- anno 1100-1199 --- Military art and science - History - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Arts and Humanities --- 1ERE CROISADE, 1096-1099 --- CROISADES --- HISTOIRE