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The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Peter Frankopan
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Description for The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Paperback. The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade from the perspective of the east, examining the role of the Byzantine Empire and its ruler, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3H; HBJF1; HBLC1; HBWC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILK ROADS
'Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of totally fresh sources' Simon Sebag Montefiore
In 1096, an expedition of extraordinary scale and ambition set off from Western Europe on a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Three years later, after a journey which saw acute hardship, the most severe dangers and thousands of casualties, the knights of the First Crusade found themselves storming the fortifications and capturing the Holy City. Against all the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099555032
SKU
9780099555032
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99-1
About Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is currently Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Faculty Fellow in Medieval and Modern Greek at Oxford University. He is Director-designate of the Centre for Byzantine Studies at Oxford. He took a First in History at Jesus College, Cambridge and completed his doctorate at Oxford, where he was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College, and Junior ... Read more
Reviews for The First Crusade: The Call from the East
Frankopan has written a remarkable book that makes as strong case as the incomplete and episodic evidence permits
Literary Review
Scholarly and yet accessible, and unashamedly partisan, The First Crusade, as any vibrant history should, is bound to set a lot of feathers flying
Daily Telegraph
A dazzling book, perfectly combining deep scholarship and easy readability. ... Read more
Literary Review
Scholarly and yet accessible, and unashamedly partisan, The First Crusade, as any vibrant history should, is bound to set a lot of feathers flying
Daily Telegraph
A dazzling book, perfectly combining deep scholarship and easy readability. ... Read more