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The First Crusade : the call from the East / Peter Frankopan.

by Frankopan, Peter.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of the East, 1048-1118.

Crusades -- First, 1096-1099.

Byzantine Empire -- History -- Alexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.

9780674059948 (hbk.) :

xxi, 262 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Europe in crisis -- The recovery of Constantinople -- Stability in the East -- The collapse of Asia Minor -- On the brink of disaster -- The call from the East -- The response of the West -- To the Imperial City -- First encounters with the enemy -- The struggle for the soul of the crusade -- The crusade unravels -- The consequences of the First Crusade.

According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II{u2019}s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade{u2019}s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade{u2019}s untold history.

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