| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Baybars, Louis IX, and the Battle for Syria -- Al-Mustansir, Charles of Anjou, and the Struggle for the Central Mediterranean -- The Diversion -- The Crusade Begins -- The Peace of Tunisia -- Why Tunis? -- After the Storm: Rupture and Stability in the Medieval Mediterranean |
| Summary |
Why did the last of the major European campaigns to reclaim Jerusalem end in an attack on Tunis, a peaceful North African port city thousands of miles from the Holy Land? In the first book-length study of the campaign in English, Michael Lower tells the story of how the classic era of crusading came to such an unexpected end. Unfolding against a backdrop of conflict and collaboration that extended from England to Inner Asia, the Tunis Crusade entangled people from every corner of the Mediterranean world. Within this expansive geographical playing field, the ambitions of four powerful Mediterranean dynasts would collide. While the slave-boy-turned-sultan Baybars of Egypt and the saint-king Louis IX of France waged a bitter battle for Syria, al-Mustansir of Tunis and Louis's younger brother Charles of Anjou struggled for control of the Sicilian Straits. When the conflicts over Syria and Sicily became intertwined in the late 1260s, the Tunis Crusade was the shocking result |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Baibars I. Mameluckenreich, Sultan ca. 1223-1277 gnd |
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Karl I. Neapel-Sizilien, König 1226-1285 gnd |
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Ludwig IX. Frankreich, König 1214-1270 gnd |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Kreuzzug 1270
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| SUBJECT |
Mediterranean Region -- History -- 13th century
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Tunis (Tunisia) -- History
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| Subject |
Mediterranean Region.
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Tunisia -- Tunis.
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Mittelmeerraum
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Tunis
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191061837 |
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0191061832 |
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9780191805707 |
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019180570X |
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