A potent mixt of salvation and adventure, the Crusades were one of the most prominent features of medieval Europe, reflecting and directing religious and secular movements in Western society for half a millennium. Christopher Tyerman offers the first book-length study of the role of England in the Crusades. Focusing on the courtroom and council chamber rather than the battlefield, he demonstrates the impact of the Crusades on the political and economic functions of English society.
Drawing on a wide range of archival, chronicle, and literary evidence, Tyerman brings to life the royal personalities, foreign policy, political intrigue, taxation and fundraising, and the crusading ethos that gripped England for hundreds of years.
"An ambitious task to undertake. . . . Tyerman has done the job not only thoroughly but brilliantly. . . . A highly impressive study, deserving rich praise and wide readership."—Norman Housley, Times Literary Supplement
"Christopher Tyerman has written a wonderful book. . . . [He] manages to confront thorny issues in scholarship and to contribute new perspectives on them."—William Chester Jordan, American Historical Review
"Tyerman provides valuable insights into preaching, recruitment, and the funding and organisation of crusading expeditions. . . . Fascinating new perspectives on English history."—Edward Powell, Sunday Times
"Impressive. . . . Tyerman's research has yielded valuable evidence, and his admirably lucid argument sheds new light on a complex and bloody period in English history."—Virginia Quarterly Review
Booknews The first book-length study of the role of England in the Crusades. Tyerman's study gives long-overdue recognition to the Crusade as an important aspect of English history. He focuses on the courtroom and council chamber rather than the battlefield, demonstrating the impact of the Crusades on the political and economic functions of English society. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

England and the crusades 1095-1566

Christopher Tyerman

United States, United States of America

Chicago, London, 1988

December 15, 1996

FR, 1996

A potent mixt of salvation and adventure, the Crusades were one of the most prominent features of medieval Europe, reflecting and directing religious and secular movements in Western society for half a millennium. Christopher Tyerman offers the first book-length study of the role of England in the Crusades. Focusing on the courtroom and council chamber rather than the battlefield, he demonstrates the impact of the Crusades on the political and economic functions of English society.
Drawing on a wide range of archival, chronicle, and literary evidence, Tyerman brings to life the royal personalities, foreign policy, political intrigue, taxation and fundraising, and the crusading ethos that gripped England for hundreds of years.
"An ambitious task to undertake. . . . Tyerman has done the job not only thoroughly but brilliantly. . . . A highly impressive study, deserving rich praise and wide readership."Norman Housley, Times Literary Supplement
"Christopher Tyerman has written a wonderful book. . . . [He] manages to confront thorny issues in scholarship and to contribute new perspectives on them."William Chester Jordan, American Historical Review
"Tyerman provides valuable insights into preaching, recruitment, and the funding and organisation of crusading expeditions. . . . Fascinating new perspectives on English history."Edward Powell, Sunday Times
"Impressive. . . . Tyerman's research has yielded valuable evidence, and his admirably lucid argument sheds new light on a complex and bloody period in English history."Virginia Quarterly Review

xvi, 492 pages : 234 cm
Drawing on a wide range of archival, chronicle, and literary evidence, Tyerman brings to life the royal personalities, foreign policy, political intrigue, taxation and fundraising, and the crusading ethos that gripped England for hundreds of years. -- Amazon
Originally published: 1988
Introduction -- 1. A New Way of Earning Salvation -- 2. Henry II: The King over the Water? -- 3. The Third Crusade -- 4. Crusades and Crusaders, 1192-1250 -- 5. A Problem of Priorities: Henry III and the Lord Edward -- 6. Political Crusades -- 7. Preaching and Recruitment -- 8. The Home Front -- 9. Missed Opportunities or the End of an Era? -- 10. Crusades in "Hethenesse," 1337-1410 -- 11. The Fifteenth Century and Beyond: A Continuing Tradition -- 12. National Crusades? -- 13. The Tudors, the Reformation, and the Crusade
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-466) and index

Christopher Tyerman offers this book-length study of the role of England in the Crusades which focuses on the courtroom and council chamber rather than the battlefield. Tyerman seeks to demonstrate the impact of the Crusades on the political and economic functions of English society.

At Clermont in central France in November 1095, Pope Urban II called upon the knights of western Christendom to go to the aid of their fellow Christians in the East and to liberate the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.

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