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Michael Lower - The Barons´ Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences - 9780812238730 - V9780812238730
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The Barons´ Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences

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Description for The Barons´ Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences Hardback. This first full-length treatment of the Barons' Crusade examines the call for holy war and its consequences in Hungary, France, England, Constantinople, and the Holy Land. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.

In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates to go on to fight the infidel in Jerusalem, he now urged them to combat the spread of Christian heresy in Latin Greece and to defend the Latin empire of Constantinople. The Barons' Crusade, as it was named by a fourteenth-century chronicler impressed by the great number of barons who participated, would last until 1241 and would represent in many ways the high point of papal efforts to make crusading a universal Christian undertaking. ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Condition
New
Weight
561g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812238730
SKU
V9780812238730
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Michael Lower
Michael Lower teaches history at the University of Minnesota.

Reviews for The Barons´ Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences
"Michael Lower has begun a reassessment of the historiographical paradigm in regard to crusading which has grown so comfortable to European and American scholars in last century. He has done this by engaging in more contextualization and less theory. The result is an evolving picture of crusading as a process which owed as much to realpolitik as to muscular Christianity. ... Read more

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