Annales Ianuenses
Annales Monastici
Ayyubid dynasty collapse
Ayyubids
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Christian Muslim relations
Chronica Majora
Crusade
crusader states
Crusading Vow
Diplomatarium Norvegicum
Ecclesiastical Revenues
Emperor Frederick II
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Ferdinand III
Frederick II
Henry III
Historiae Francorum Scriptores
Holy Land
Illustrious King
Jean De Beaumont
Jean De Garlande
Latin West
Latin West reactions
Lord King
Louis IX
Mamluk rise
Matthew Paris
medieval military history
Nile delta
Papal Legate
Pastoureaux
Pope Innocent IV
primary crusade source documents
Seventh Crusade
Troubadour's Song
Troubadour’s Song
Villehardouin
William Longespee
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754669234
- Weight: 534g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis IX of France, was the last major expedition for the recovery of the Holy Land actually to reach the Near East. The failure of his invasion of Egypt (1249-50), followed by his four-year stay in Palestine in order to retrieve the disaster, had a profound impact on the Latin West. In addition, Louis's operations in the Nile delta indirectly precipitated the Mamluk coup d'état, which ended the rule of the Ayyubids, Saladin's dynasty, in Egypt and began the transfer of power there to a military elite that would prove to be a far more formidable enemy to the Franks of Syria and Palestine. This volume comprises translations of the principal documents and of extracts from narrative sources - both Muslim and Christian - relating to the crusade, and includes many texts, notably the account of Ibn Wasil, not previously available in English. The themes covered include: the preparations and search for allies; the campaign in the Nile delta; the impact on recruitment of the simultaneous crusade against the emperor Frederick II; the Mamluk coup and its immediate consequences in the Near East; Western reactions to the failure in Egypt; and the popular 'crusade' of the Pastoureaux in France (1251), which aimed originally to help the absent king, but which degenerated into violence against the clergy and the Jews and had to be suppressed by force.
Peter Jackson is Professor of Medieval History at Keele University, UK, and an acknowledged authority on the history of the Mongol Empire, the Eastern Islamic world in the later Middle Ages, and on the Crusades and the Latin East.
