The Crusader States and Their Neighbours : 1098-1291.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (112 pages)
- The Medieval World Series .
- The Medieval World Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- INTRODUCTION -- The geography of the region -- The historical background -- The Turkish phenomenon -- chapter one THE FIRST CRUSADE AND ITS IMPACT -- The First Crusade: territorial and demographic effects -- Muslim views of the First Crusade -- The impact of the First Crusade on the Byzantine Empire -- The impact of the First Crusade on the Armenians -- Technical and cultural interchange -- chapter two POLITICS AND WARFARE: 1097-1119 -- Antioch and its Muslim neighbours: 1100-19 -- Antioch and Byzantium to 1119 -- Jerusalem and its Muslim neighbours to 1119 -- Frankish and Muslim military and naval forces -- chapter three FROM THE FIELD OF BLOOD TO THE SECOND CRUSADE: 1119-49 -- The Byzantine factor -- The career of Zangī and the fall of Edessa: 1119-44 -- The sequel to the fall of Edessa: the Second Crusade -- chapter four NŪR AL-DĪN, SALADIN AND THE FRANKISH STATES -- The reign of Nūr al-Dīn and the acquisition of Damascus -- The contest for Egypt -- The extension of Saladin's power: 1169-86 -- Hattīn and the Third Crusade -- chapter five THE FRANKISH STATES AND THE LATER AYYUBIDS -- The Ayyubid realm and the Latin kingdom -- The Fifth Crusade: 1217-21 -- The Crusade of Frederick II: 1228-9 -- The Crusade of Theobald of Champagne and Richard of Cornwall: 1239-41 -- The Crusade of St Louis of France: 1248-50 -- The aftermath -- chapter six THE FRANKISH STATES AND THE EARLY MAMLUK SULTANS -- The extension of Mamluk rule to Syria -- The sultanate of Baybars -- The sultanate of Qalāwūn -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF PERSONS -- INDEX OF PLACES.
Although the crusader states in the Holy Land were never hugely powerful in themselves, they had significance out of all proportion to their size for medieval Christendom, and were the continuing focal point for the crusading impulse from the west. Holt takes a fresh look at the Crusades and investigates their social, political and ethnic impact in the region. He looks at the involvement of the crusaders states in local politics - how they used division amongst their Muslim neighbours for their own benefit but also how they created alliances with them and fought alongside them, and their reaction to the perceived threat of the Christian Orthodox Byzantine Empire.