Beschreibung:
This volume brings together revised and up-dated versions of Giles Constable's classic essays on crusading in the 12th century, along with two major new studies on the cross of the crusaders and the Fourth Crusade, and two excursuses on the terminology of crusading and the numbering of the crusades. Together they show the range and depth of the crusading movement at that time and its influence on the broader history of the period.
Contents: Introduction; The historiography of the crusades; The cross of the crusaders; Medieval charters as a source for the history of the crusades; The financing of the crusades; The place of the crusader in medieval society; The military orders; Cluny and the First Crusade; Early crusading in Eastern Germany: the Magdeburg charter of 1107/8; The three lives of Odo Arpinus: Viscount of Bourges, crusader, monk of Cluny; The Second Crusade as seen by contemporaries; Two notes on the Anglo-Flemish crusaders of 1147-8; Crusading project of 1150; The Fourth Crusade; Appendices: The terminology of crusading; The numbering of the crusades; Indexes.