Overview
'this volume is a valuable overview of the subject... this book is not aimed primarily at the historian of war. However, it contains much of value for anyone interested in the organisation and practice of warfare in the medieval period.' -Matthew Bennett, War in History, 2000 7 (3). 'makes the results of the recent academic study of the Crusades accessible to a wide section of the general public and succeeds in conveying that this is a living and developing subject, which has far from exhausted its potential.' -THES
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Author: Jonathan Riley-Smith (Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Cambridge)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 19.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 24.70cm
Weight: 1.051kg
ISBN: 9780192854285
ISBN 10: 0192854283
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 18 January 2001
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General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<br> Fascinating...a comprehensive history of the wars. --History Today<p><br> In 1095, Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story...is well treated in this interpretation of the movement to take up the cross. --Booklist<p><br> In a series of finely crafted and admirably succinct essays, the contributors unravel a number of important medieval political and religious themes. This comprehensive approach adds a great deal to the book's interest and presents some of the best insights of modern Crusading scholarship....Excellent. --Tablet<p><br> The great merit of Professor Riley-Smith's book is to follow the story down to the present day. --Church Times<p><br> In 1095 Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story, in contemporary chronicles, artwork, and castellated ruins, is well treated in this interpretation of the movement to take up the cross. --Booklist<p><br>
Fascinating...a comprehensive history of the wars. --History Today<br> In 1095, Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story...is well treated in this interpretation of the movement to take up the cross. --Booklist<br> In a series of finely crafted and admirably succinct essays, the contributors unravel a number of important medieval political and religious themes. This comprehensive approach adds a great deal to the book's interest and presents some of the best insights of modern Crusading scholarship....Excellent. --Tablet<br> The great merit of Professor Riley-Smith's book is to follow the story down to the present day. --Church Times<br> In 1095 Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story, in contemporary chronicles, artwork, and castellated ruins, is well treated in this interpretation of the movement to take up the cross. --Booklist<br>
<br> Fascinating...a comprehensive history of the wars. --History Today<br> In 1095, Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story...is well treated in this interpretation of the movement to take up the cross. --Booklist<br> In a series of finely crafted and admirably succinct essays, the contributors unravel a number of important medieval political and religious themes. This comprehensive approach adds a great deal to the book's interest and presents some of the best insights of modern Crusading scholarship....Excellent. --Tablet<br> The great merit of Professor Riley-Smith's book is to follow the story down to the present day. --Church Times<br> In 1095 Pope Urban II granted absolutions to whomever would reclaim the Holy Land for Christendom. With that assurance began two centuries of Crusades, and the story, in contemporary chronicles, artwork, and castellated ruins, is we
Author Information
Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University and has been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1994. He has published widely on medieval history and the Crusades and his books include What were the Crusades? (1977), The Crusades: idea and reality (1981), The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (1986), and The Atlas of the Crusades (1991). He was President of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East from 1990 to 1995.
