The world of the Crusades : an illustrated history
Tyerman, Christopher2019
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Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by concrete objectives: land, resources, power, reputation. Crusaders amassed possessions of all sorts, from castles to reliquaries. Campaigns required material funds and equipment, while conquests produced bureaucracies, taxation, economic exploitation, and commercial regulation. Wealth sustained the Crusades while material objects, from weaponry and military technology to carpentry and shipping, conditioned them. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the material trappings of crusading wars and the objects that memorialised them, in architecture, sculpture, jewelry, painting, and manuscripts.
Main title:
The world of the Crusades : an illustrated history / Christopher Tyerman.
Author:
Tyerman, Christopher, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]©2019
Collation:
xxv, 517 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300217391 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
909.07
Language:
English
BRN:
2268075