Gateway to the Heavenly City: Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099-1187)

by Sylvia Schein

Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Sylvia Schein starts by exploring the changes in the Western image of Jerusalem, first as the goal of the crusade, then after its conquest. She examines the theories used to justify the conquest and rule of the Holy City and the attitudes of the papacy towards...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075460649X
• ISBN13: 9780754606499
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages