The crusade of King Conrad III of Germany: warfare and diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-48
This book represents the first work of history dedicated to the crusade of King Conrad III of Germany (1146-49), emperor-elect of the western Roman Empire and the most powerful man yet to assume the Cross. Even so, many of the people following the king on the Second Crusade were dead before they rea...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium
Brepols Publishers
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Outremer
Volume 13 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Konrad, III., Heiliges Römisches Reich, König 1093-1152
/ Crusade (1147-1149)
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| Further subjects: | B
Latin Orient
History
B Crusades History B Konrad III King of the Romans (1093-1152) |
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| Summary: | This book represents the first work of history dedicated to the crusade of King Conrad III of Germany (1146-49), emperor-elect of the western Roman Empire and the most powerful man yet to assume the Cross. Even so, many of the people following the king on the Second Crusade were dead before they reached Constantinople and their ranks were devastated in Anatolia. Yet he went on to join with his fellow kings, Louis VII of France and Baldwin III of Jerusalem, in an attempt to capture the city of Damascus, the most powerful Muslim stronghold in southern Syria. Their unsuccessful attack lasted just five days. The recriminations for the many privations and problems the Germans suffered and encountered in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer were long and loud and have echoed down the ages: German indiscipline and poor leadership, Byzantine deceit and duplicity, and the self-serving interests of a Latin Jerusalemite nobility were and still are blamed for the various failings of the expedition. Scrutinising the original source evidence to an unprecedented degree and employing a range of innovative, multi-disciplinary approaches this work challenges the traditional and more recent historiography at every turn leading to a significantly clearer and fundamentally different understanding of the expedition?s complex and much maligned history |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 341-365 |
| ISBN: | 2503560954 |