Byzantium and the Crusades / Jonathan Harris.

Author: Harris, Jonathan, author.

Edition Statement:Third edition.

ImprintLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Descriptionxvi, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Note:The empire of Christ (900-1050) -- The power behind the throne (900-1050) -- Response to crisis (1050-95) -- The passage of the First Crusade (1096-9) -- Jerusalem and Antioch (1100-43) -- The friend of the Latins (1143-80) -- Andronikos the tyrant (1180-5) -- Iron not gold (1185-92) -- Paralysis and extortion (1192-1204) -- The rivers of Babylon (1204-61) -- And so the land is lost! (1261-91) -- Epilogue : The impact.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-293) and index.

Note:The first great city to which the Crusaders came in 1089 was not Jerusalem but Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Almost as much as Jerusalem itself, Constantinople was the key to the foundation, survival and ultimate eclipse of the crusading kingdom.

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