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Maybe we should collect good information about the crusades in one place (if this already has been done, please direct me)? There must be an enormous amount of good links and books out there.
My favourite book is 'The Crusades Through Arab Eyes' by Amin Maalouf.
This was also the turning point of their expansion. Raids into southern France was stopped, and the Islamic invaders finally beaten in the famous battle of Tours in 722 where the Frankish Mayor Domus Charles earned his byname “Martel”, the Hammer.
732 it is, definitely. A typo there, thanks. As for the name it's called both the battle of Tours and the battle of Poitiers. The actual battlefield is between these two cities
Eer... Sorry to interrupt, but I've never heard of the "Bataille de Poitiers" being called "Bataille de Tours"... and I'm French... studying Middle Ages... But then it might just be me
Originally posted by Eochaid Eer... Sorry to interrupt, but I've never heard of the "Bataille de Poitiers" being called "Bataille de Tours"... and I'm French... studying Middle Ages... But then it might just be me
It appears to me that both are used. From what I've seen Poitiers is probably most correct (or least wrong) since the battlefield was probably closest to that city.
To help you out I did a search in swedish
"slaget vid tours" 7
"slaget vid poitiers" 36
So at least in Sweden we use poitiers, and that's what I remeber from my schoolbooks
- C'est sur la voie romaine menant à Tours, à Moussais, que la rencontre eut lieu. Les trois sources sont muettes quant au lieu et à la date de la bataille. Seul le deuxième texte évoque un endroit approximatif : " près de la ville de Poitiers ".
To make a short summary of the paragraph, the three sources that described the battle didn't make any mention of the site of the battle, except for the second one (...) who suggested that the battle took place near the town of Poitiers. No one knows for sure, though, where was the exact location...
I started a thread about this battle a year ago on the French forum, and never was there any mention of the city of Tours.
If you want a good book about the crusades from a different angle, try "The Crusaders" by Norman Housley, its really good. Mind you, he was my personal tutor and dissertation supervisor, so I guess I am pretty biased...
