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Christian society and the Crusades, 1198-1229; sources in translation, including The capture of Damietta by Oliver of Paderborn,

Author: Edward Peters
Publisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.
Series: Sources of medieval history.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeasure with Christian society, pervaded nearly all levels of thought. Yet this same society faced other crises: religious dissent and unorthodox beliefs were proliferating in western Europe, and the powers exercised, or  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Sources
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edward Peters
ISBN: 0812276442 9780812276442 0812210247 9780812210248
OCLC Number: 241425
Notes: Portions were originally published in the University of Pennsylvania History Dept. series. Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history.
Description: xxii, 170 p. 21 cm.
Contents: The Fourth Crusade, 1202-1207 --
Crusade and council, 1208-1215 --
The Fifth Crusade, 1217-1222 --
The Emperor's Crusade, 1227-1229.
Series Title: Sources of medieval history.
Responsibility: translated with notes by John J. Gavigan. Edited, with an introd. by Edward Peters.

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During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeasure with Christian society, pervaded nearly all levels of thought. Yet this same society faced other crises: religious dissent and unorthodox beliefs were proliferating in western Europe, and the powers exercised, or claimed, by the kings of Europe were growing rapidly. The sources presented here illustrate the rising criticism of the changing Crusade idea. They reflect a sharpened awareness among Europeans of themselves as a community of Christians and the slow beginnings of the secular culture and political organization of Europe.

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