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Runciman regarded the Crusades "as a barbarian invasion of a superior civilization, not that of the Muslims but of the Byzantines." [18] Thomas F. Madden (2005) stresses the impact of Runciman's style and viewpoint: It is no exaggeration to say that Runciman single-handedly crafted the current popular concept of the crusades.
First editions (publ. Cambridge University Press) A History of the Crusades by Steven Runciman, published in three volumes during 1951–1954 (vol.I - The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem; vol. II - The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187; vol. III - The Kingdom of Accre and the Later Crusades), is an influential work in the historiography of the ...
He would go on to write many other books including: Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700 (1996), The World of Byzantium (2001), Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor (2001), The Era of the Crusades (2003), Rome and the Barbarians (2004), Origins of Great Ancient Civilizations (2005), The Vikings (2005), The Peloponnesian War ...
The Northern Crusades [1] or Baltic Crusades [2] were Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. The most notable campaigns were the Livonian and Prussian crusades.
John France, "Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade", Reading Medieval Studies v. 9 (1983) Ed. Kurtz, 'Unedierte Texte aus der Zeit des Kaisers Johannes Komnenos, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 16 (1907): 69–119 (Greek text of Anna Comnene's testament). Jonathan Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades, Bloomsbury, 2nd ed., 2014.
His primary work was the first attempt at a history of the Crusades, concentrating on the First Crusade and the heroic role of Godfrey of Bouillon. The work was written to encourage support to pope Pius II for a new Crusade to the Holy Land and is regarded as propaganda. [167] [168] Dialogue (1461–1463). A work favorably comparing the ...
The main theme of the Alexiad is the First Crusade and religious conflict. [6] Anna Komnene chronicles the different groups of people involved in the crusades, and refers to them as "Celts", "Latins", and "Normans". [6] She also talks about her father, Alexios Komnenos in great detail and his conquests throughout his rule from 1081 to 1118. [7]
In the historiography of the Crusades, there is a long-standing argument as to how much the pacification of the Frankish realm was designed to go hand in hand with the "export of violence" to the enemy in the east. [14] Fulcher reports that everyone present agreed to the pope's propositions and promised to adhere to the church's decrees.