Cover illustration: Queen Mary Apocalypse. The angels fight for the righteous, first quarter of the fourteenth century. British Library, MS Royal 19 B XV, fol. 38ʳ. With kind permission of the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kangas, Sini, author.
Title: War and violence in the Western sources for the First Crusade / by Sini Kangas.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024] | Series: History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; volume 143 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023059388 (print) | LCCN 2023059389 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004690332 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004693593 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Crusades – First, 1096–1099 – Sources. | Crusades – First, 1096-1099 – Historiography. | Violence – Religious aspects – Christianity. | Violence – Moral and ethical aspects – Europe. | Military history, Medieval
Classification: LCC D161 .K36 2024 (print) | LCC D161 (ebook) | DDC 940.1/8–dc23/eng/20240205
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023059388
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023059389
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ISSN 1385-7827
ISBN 978-90-04-69033-2 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-69359-3 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004693593
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