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Author Frankopan, Peter.

Title The First Crusade : the call from the East / Peter Frankopan.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Location Call No. Status
 GDL Central Library Non-Fiction    956.014 FRA    Available
Description xxi, 262 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Note "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by the Bodley Head."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Europe in crisis -- The recovery of Constantinople -- Stability in the East -- The collapse of Asia Minor -- On the brink of disaster -- The call from the East -- The response of the West -- To the Imperial City -- First encounters with the enemy -- The struggle for the soul of the crusade -- The crusade unravels -- The consequences of the First Crusade.
Subject Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1048-1118.
Crusades -- First, 1096-1099.
Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
ISBN 9780674059948
0674059948

 
    
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