Contributor
Stalcup, Brenda.
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
Description258 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:An upheaval of empires / Alfred Duggan -- The fuedal system and church reform / Sidney Painter -- The importance of Pope Urban II / Robert Payne -- The pilgrimage origins of the crusades / Marcus Bull -- Economic factors / Hans Eberhard Mayer -- A variety of reasons for crusading / Ronald C. Finucane -- Taking the cross: responsibilities and rewards / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- The military orders / Henry Treece -- Religious hysteria led to participation / Norman P. Zacour -- Life in the crusader kingdoms / Antony Bridge -- Relations between eastern and western Christians / R. C. Smail -- The crusades' impact on women and Jews / Ronald C. Finucane -- Expansion of trade / Hilmar C. Krueger -- An influx of knowledge from the east / Martin Erbstösser -- The crusades were successful / T. A. Archer and Charles Lethbridge Kingsford -- The crusades were a partial success / James A. Brundage -- The crusades were a failure / Steven Runciman -- The crusades led to the decay of near eastern civilization / J. J. Saunders -- The crusades precipitated the discovery of the new world / Joshua Prawer -- The crusades gave rise to the modern conflict in the Middle East / Karen Armstrong -- APPENDIX: Excerpts from 26 original documents pertaining to the crusades.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.
