The Barons' Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its ConsequencesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2005 M05 25 - 256 pages In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates to go on to fight the infidel in Jerusalem, he now urged them to combat the spread of Christian heresy in Latin Greece and to defend the Latin empire of Constantinople. The Barons' Crusade, as it was named by a fourteenth-century chronicler impressed by the great number of barons who participated, would last until 1241 and would represent in many ways the high point of papal efforts to make crusading a universal Christian undertaking. This book, the first full-length treatment of the Barons' Crusade, examines the call for holy war and its consequences in Hungary, France, England, Constantinople, and the Holy Land. |
Contents
THE DIVERSION TO CONSTANTINOPLE | 58 |
CRUSADERS MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN HUNGARY | 74 |
THE BARONS CRUSADERS IN THE HOLY LAND | 158 |
ABBREVIATIONS | 185 |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 255 |