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Geoffrey Hindley.
A Brief History of the Crusades.

Published London: Constable, 3rd impression (previously issued 2004, revised from the hardback edn. of 2003).
Series: Brief Histories.
ISBN 1841197661;
ISBN-13: 9781841197661.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the EU.
Size: 129x195x21mm.
Page count: text xx,300pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: covers grubby with some noticeable wear at the edges and corners, spine a bit skewed and creased; pages a bit yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.


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[Publisher’s price £8.99]
Weight without packaging: 296g.

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Contents: Intro. — what’s in a name?; Beginnings 632-1095; 1st Crusade 1095-99; Life & politics in a multicultural world; 2nd Crusade — disaster on the road to Damascus; Turk & Kurd — heroes of Islam; Women & an alternative feudalism; Loss of Jerusalem & 3rd Crusade 1187-92; 4th crusade — Latin conquest of Constantinople & scandal of Christendom; Heathen, heretics & children; Triumphs of an excommunicated emperor; Failures of a saint; Acre & after; Chivalry in action and Nicopolis 'the last crusade'; Lingering decline of a flawed ideal; Epilogue — the aftermath.
Appendices: Popes, Gregory VII to Sixtus V; Rulers of Kingdom of Jerusalem; Ayyubid dynasty — rulers of Egypt; Byzantine emperors at time of first crusades; Ottoman princes & sultans 1300-1566; Western emperors 1056-1555.

Illustrations: 16 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 3

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 4pp
Index: yes


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