A History of the Crusades, Volume 3

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CUP Archive, Dec 3, 1987 - History - 542 pages
Sir Steven Runciman's three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical writing, is now being reissued. In this final volume, Runciman examines the revival of the Frankish kingdom at the time of the Third Crusade until its collapse a century later. The interwoven themes of the book include: Christiandom, the replacement of the cultured Ayubites by the less sympathetic Mameluks as leader of the Moslem world, and the coming of the Mongols. He includes a chapter on architecture and the arts, and an epilogue on the last manifestations of the Crusading spirit.
 

Contents

The Conscience of the West
3
List of Plates page ix
The Conscience of the West 3
3
The Emperor Frederick
171
Legalized Anarchy
205
The Coming of the Mongols
237
Saint Louis
255
The Last Crusades
427
The SummingUp
469
Crusades
481
BIBLIOGRAPHY
493
Index
504
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