The First Crusade by Peter Frankopan

The First Crusade by Peter Frankopan

The First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about events in history. This book intends to address the history of the First Crusade from the perspective of the east, examining the role of the Byzantine Empire and its ruler, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Frankopan has written a remarkable book that makes as strong case as the incomplete and episodic evidence permits * Literary Review *
Scholarly and yet accessible, and unashamedly partisan, The First Crusade, as any vibrant history should, is bound to set a lot of feathers flying * Daily Telegraph *
A dazzling book, perfectly combining deep scholarship and easy readability The most important addition to Crusading literature since Runciman
A nuanced and often counterintuitive story of power politics, international diplomacy and war and, ultimately that very rare thing - a truly fresh interpretation of an old story * Time Out *
Frankopan's qualities as a historian and writer are of a high order * BBC History Magazine *

Peter Frankopan is currently Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Faculty Fellow in Medieval and Modern Greek at Oxford University. He is Director-designate of the Centre for Byzantine Studies at Oxford. He took a First in History at Jesus College, Cambridge and completed his doctorate at Oxford, where he was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College, and Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He has lectured at leading universities all over the world, including at Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, NYU, King's College London, the Institute of Historical Research and at Princeton. His work has been widely published in leading academic journals, including English Historical Review, Journal of Medieval History, Crusades, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and in many edited volumes. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009.

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ISBN 13	9780099555032
ISBN 10	0099555034
Title	The First Crusade
Author	Peter Frankopan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2013-03-07
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Short-listed for Gladstone History Book Prize 2013 (UK)
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