001403898 000__ 03374cam\a2200409Ia\4500 001403898 001__ 1403898 001403898 005__ 20220707071400.0 001403898 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001403898 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 001403898 008__ 220707r20122011mauab\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 001403898 010__ $$z2011050722 001403898 020__ $$a9780674064997$$qelectronic book 001403898 020__ $$z0674059948 001403898 020__ $$z9780674059948 001403898 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn794004243 001403898 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568046 001403898 037__ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674064997$$bDOI 001403898 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 001403898 05014 $$aD161.2$$b.F74 2012eb 001403898 08204 $$a956/.014$$223 001403898 1001_ $$aFrankopan, Peter. 001403898 24514 $$aThe First Crusade$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe call from the East /$$cPeter Frankopan. 001403898 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$$c2012. 001403898 300__ $$a1 online resource (xxi, 262 p., [8] p.) :$$bill., maps. 001403898 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 001403898 5050_ $$aEurope in crisis -- The recovery of Constantinople -- Stability in the East -- The collapse of Asia Minor -- On the brink of disaster -- The call from the East -- The response of the West -- To the imperial city -- First encounters with the enemy -- The struggle for the soul of the crusade -- The crusade unravels -- The consequences of the First Crusade. 001403898 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001403898 520__ $$aAccording to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the rising menace of Islam. But what if the First Crusade's real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? In this groundbreaking book, countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the untold history of the First Crusade.Nearly all historians of the First Crusade focus on the papacy and its willing warriors in the West, along with innumerable popular tales of bravery, tragedy, and resilience. In sharp contrast, Frankopan examines events from the East, in particular from Constantinople, seat of the Christian Byzantine Empire. The result is revelatory. The true instigator of the First Crusade, we see, was the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, who in 1095, with his realm under siege from the Turks and on the point of collapse, begged the pope for military support. Basing his account on long-ignored eastern sources, Frankopan also gives a provocative and highly original explanation of the world-changing events that followed the First Crusade. The Vatican's victory cemented papal power, while Constantinople, the heart of the still-vital Byzantine Empire, never recovered. As a result, both Alexios and Byzantium were consigned to the margins of history. From Frankopan's revolutionary work, we gain a more faithful understanding of the way the taking of Jerusalem set the stage for western Europe's dominance up to the present day and shaped the modern world. 001403898 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 001403898 60000 $$aAlexius$$bI Comnenus,$$cEmperor of the East,$$d1048-1118. 001403898 650_0 $$aCrusades$$yFirst, 1096-1099. 001403898 651_0 $$aByzantine Empire$$xHistory$$yAlexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118. 001403898 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aFrankopan, Peter.$$tFirst Crusade.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012$$z9780674059948$$w(DLC) 2011050722$$w(OCoLC)758383633 001403898 85280 $$bebk$$hProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete 001403898 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10568046$$zOnline Access 001403898 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:464770$$pGLOBAL_SET 001403898 980__ $$aEBOOK 001403898 980__ $$aBIB 001403898 982__ $$aEbook 001403898 983__ $$aOnline