Chronicles of the First Crusade

Christopher Tyerman

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Penguin
11 January 2012

History; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Crusades

The story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers

'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!'

The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of Western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the Middle Ages.

It was both the climax of a great wave of visionary Christian fervour and the beginning of what proved to be a futile and abortive attempt to implant a new European kingdom in an overwhelmingly Muslim world.

The legacy of these events continues to be argued over more than nine centuries later.

This remarkable collection of first-hand accounts brings to life the First Crusade in all its cruelty and strangeness.

By: Christopher Tyerman
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 326g
ISBN: 9780241955222
ISBN 10: 024195522X
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 11 January 2012
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Tyerman is a Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College, Oxford and Lecturer in Medieval History at New College Oxford. He has written extensively on the crusades, most recently God's War: A New History of the Crusades (2006) and The Debate on the Crusades (2011).