The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Mediterranean History

ISBN-13: 9780198744320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Michael Lower

Opis

The story of how the last major expedition led by a European king in aid of the Holy Land ended with the attack on Tunis, a peaceful North African port city thousands of miles from the Crusader States.

Recenzje

[This] bold, well-reasoned text serves as a useful reminder for historians to consider an event not only in terms of the ramifications for its immediate participants but also in terms of the ripple effects it causes for other regions and societies. Lower ... does an excellent job of examining the historiography and differing theories for why Louis halted his Crusade at Tunis rather than continuing on to Egypt or the Levant ... insightful, engaging, and a wonderful example of new approaches to Crusades history.

O autorze

Michael Lower teaches history at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on violence, religious difference, and Mediterranean culture in the Middle Ages. He is the author of The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences. In 2010-2011, he was a Mellon New Directions Fellow at the University of Chicago. In addition to his work on the crusades, he has published several studies about mercenaries who crossed the religious divide in the Middle Ages.