The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and Islam

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In The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes, and barbarity on a vast scale. Beginning with the electrifying speech delivered by Pope Urban II on the last Tuesday of November in the year 1095, readers will follow the more than 100,000 men who took up the call from their mobilization in Europe (where great waves of anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of thousands of Jews), to their arrival in Constanstinople, an exotic, opulent city--ten times the size of any city in Europe--that bedazzled the Europeans. Featured in vivid detail are the siege of Nicaea and the pivotal battle for Antioch,...
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In The First Crusade, Thomas Asbridge offers a gripping account of a titanic three-year adventure filled with miraculous victories, greedy princes, and barbarity on a vast scale. Beginning with the electrifying speech delivered by Pope Urban II on the last Tuesday of November in the year 1095, readers will follow the more than 100,000 men who took up the call from their mobilization in Europe (where great waves of anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of thousands of Jews), to their arrival in Constanstinople, an exotic, opulent city--ten times the size of any city in Europe--that bedazzled the Europeans. Featured in vivid detail are the siege of Nicaea and the pivotal battle for Antioch, the single most important military engagement of the entire expedition, where the crusaders, in desparate straits, routed a larger and better equipped Muslim army. Through all this, the crusaders were driven on by intense religious devotion, convinced that their struggle would earn them the reward of eternal paradise in Heaven. But when a hardened core finally reached Jerusalem in 1099 they unleahsed an unholy wave of brutality, slaughtering thousands of Muslims--men, women, and children--all in the name of Christianity.
The First Crusade marked a watershed in relations between Islam and the West, a conflict that set these two world religions on a course toward deep-seated animosity and enduring enmity. The chilling reverberations of this earth-shattering clash still echo in the world today.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780195189056
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 9/29/2005
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 263,594
  • Product dimensions: 9.10 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Thomas Asbridge is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
List of Maps xiii
Cast of Characters xv
1 Holy War Proclaimed 1
2 Afire with Crusading Fever 40
3 The Journey to Byzantium 83
4 The First Storm of War 117
5 Before the Walls of Antioch 153
6 Tightening the Screw 188
7 To the Edge of Annihilation 212
8 Descent into Discord 241
9 The Faltering Path 271
10 The Holy City 295
11 Aftermath 320
Conclusion 334
Glossary 341
Chronology 342
Notes 345
Bibliography 380
Index 397

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 20, 2006

    Fantastic history that reads like a novel

    How do you get 100,000 people to leave their homes and walk a few thousand miles to fight in a strange land? The fact that this succeeded is frankly unexplainable after reading this book...except to say that Pope Urban's speech in 1097 must have been some speech. By the time they made it to Syria, there were half as many people, they had no food, and most of the horses were dead and the princes mostly penniless. They then proceeded to take over a few 'impenetrable' fortresses along the way! Once you get past the who's who chapter, the story comes off like this improbable adventure novel. Although a large portion of the book centers on the siege of Antioch (which was more interesting than the siege of Jerusalem)I was impressed with the author's ability to find the story despite the amazing number of players and time involved. Highly recommended overview of this oft referenced and little understood period of history.

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