The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany
Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-1149
By (author) Jason T. Roche
Hardback (Published)
(February 2021)
ISBN: 9782503530383
Price: $118.00
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This book represents the first work of history dedicated to the crusade of King Conrad III of Germany (1146-49), emperor-elect of the western Roman Empire and the most powerful man yet to assume the Cross. Even so, many of the people following the king on the Second Crusade were dead before they reached Constantinople and their ranks were devastated in Anatolia. Yet he went on to join with his fellow kings, Louis VII of France and Baldwin III of Jerusalem, in an attempt to capture the city of Damascus, the most powerful Muslim stronghold in southern Syria. Their unsuccessful attack lasted just five days. The recriminations for the many privations and problems the Germans suffered and encountered in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer were long and loud and have echoed down the ages: German indiscipline and poor leadership, Byzantine deceit and duplicity, and the self-serving interests of a Latin Jerusalemite nobility were and still are blamed for the various failings of the expedition. Scrutinising the original source evidence to an unprecedented degree and employing a range of innovative, multi-disciplinary approaches this work challenges the traditional and more recent historiography at every turn leading to a significantly clearer and fundamentally different understanding of the expedition’s complex and much maligned history.
- By (author) Jason T. Roche
Other Titles in this Series
Legacies of the Crusades
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Odense, 27 June - 1 July 2016. Volume 1
Volume 11
The Crusades
History and Memory: Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Odense, 27 June - 1 July 2016. Volume 2
Volume 12
The Expansion of the Faith
Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages
Volume 14
The Fourth Lateran Council and the Crusade Movement
The Impact of the Council of 1215 on Latin Christendom and the East
Volume 7
The Defence of the Faith
Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the Late Middle Ages
Volume 15
Crusading on the Edge
Ideas and Practice of Crusading in Iberia and the Baltic Region, 1100-1500
Volume 4
From Carrickfergus to Carcassonne
The Epic Deeds of Hugh de Lacy during the Albigensian Crusade
Volume 5
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