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The Crusades: A History

The Crusades: A History

Riley-Smith, Jonathan

Paperback

Series: Yale Nota Bene

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral European HistoryOther Wars

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ISBN10: 0300101287
ISBN13: 9780300101287
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jun 11 2005
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.03 Depth: 7.76
Language: English
Pulls off the enviable feat of summing up seven centuries of religious warfare in a crisp 309 pages of text.--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World

In this authoritative work, Jonathan Riley-Smith provides the definitive account of the Crusades: an account of the theology of violence behind the Crusades, the major Crusades, the experience of crusading, and the crusaders themselves. With a wealth of fascinating detail, Riley-Smith brings to life these stirring expeditions to the Holy Land and the politics and personalities behind them. This new edition includes revisions throughout as well as a new Preface and Afterword in which Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to the Islamic world today.

From reviews of the first edition:

Everything is here: the crusades to the Holy Land, and against the Albigensians, the Moors, the pagans in Eastern Europe, the Turks, and the enemies of the popes. Riley-Smith writes a beautiful, lucid prose, . . . [and his book] is packed with facts and action.--Choice

A concise, clearly written synthesis . . . by one of the leading historians of the crusading movement. --Robert S. Gottfried, Historian

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