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Since its first appearance in 2004, The Crusades: A Reader has been the go-to sourcebook in the field. S.J. Allen and Emilie Amt cover the entire crusading movement, from its origins to its modern afterlife, using key primary source documents. The third edition features a new introduction that includes a guide for students on how to use the book. The editors have also added more content on women, material culture, Jewish and Byzantine perspectives, Muslim-Crusader interactions, and modern use of Crusade imagery and rhetoric by the Far Right. The geographic range is broad, covering not only Crusades in the Middle East, but also in Spain and in northern Europe and against European heretics. While scholarship, courses, and textbooks on the Crusades have proliferated over the past twenty years, The Crusades: A Reader remains the only comprehensive, up-to-date, and in-print sourcebook available on the subject.

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"""The collection of translated sources in The Crusades: A Reader is one of the most comprehensive yet assembled. It covers the centuries from the late eleventh to the early sixteenth and includes texts illustrating actions in theatres of war that are often ignored, such as Spain, the Baltic region, and the interior of western Europe. It is to be recommended as a very congenial and informative introduction to a large, complex, and historically important subject.""--Jonathan Riley-Smith, University of Cambridge ""This is a stellar collection, and there is nothing to equal it on the market. By bringing together primary sources written by various Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors, this anthology elegantly conveys the diversity of experiences of the Crusades: those of its participants and those of its victims. The questions for discussion that the authors provide are tailor-made for each source and make teaching this complicated subject all the easier. This new edition is especially strong in its coverage of modern perceptions of the Crusades. The editors are to be congratulated.""--Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania ""This rich, impressively comprehensive yet acute selection of texts allows student and scholar alike to explore the complexities of the subject by providing focused insights into the widest range of perspectives on crusading across a millennium and a half from its ideological origins to its cultural, material, and political contexts, from the actions and thoughts of its supporters, opponents, and victims to its toxic afterlife in the modern world. A fine achievement.""--Christopher Tyerman, University of Oxford ""Allen and Amt's reader on the Crusades has always been an excellent resource for students, scholars, and laypersons seeking to gain insight into the experiences of the people who lived through the period. This third edition not only revises and updates the documents provided, but also includes a welcome and valuable expansion of the range of sources provided and social groups represented. Highly recommended!""--Niall Christie, Langara College"

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S.J. Allen is a medieval historian and an associate lecturer at The Open University. Emilie Amt is an emeritus professor of history at Hood College.

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