The Crusades: A History is the definitive account of a key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the subject, explores the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading and the crusaders themselves, producing a textbook that is as accessible as it is comprehensive.
This exciting new third edition includes:
- Substantial new material on crusade theory, historiography and translated texts
- An expanded scope that extends the text to cover the decline of crusading in the nineteenth century
- Valuable pedagogical features, such as a revised bibliography, maps, illustrations and a brand new chronology
This book is essential reading for all students and scholars seeking to understand the Crusades and their significance in world history.
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- English
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The Crusades: A History
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THE
BIRTH
OF
THE
CRUSADING
MOVEMENT
45
occurred
in
the
preparations
for,
rather
than
in
the
course
of,
crusades.
Emotional
anti-Judaism
seems
to
have
featured
in
a
European
context,
but
not,
or
not
so
much,
in
a
west
Asian
one,
where,
at
any
rate
after
1110,
there
was
relative
toleration
in
crusader
Palestine.
Forcing
baptism
on
the
Jews
may
have
reflected
the
conviction
that
the
Last
Days
would
be
ushered
in
by
their
conversion,
but
the
contradictions
can
be
explained
more
convincingly
when
one
reminds
oneself
that
holy
war
has
a
tendency
to
turn
inwards.
Its
participants
come
to
believe
that
it
can
never
be
successful
if
the
society
which
has
bred
it
is
unregenerate
and
impure.
The
Christian
crusade,
like
the
Islamic
jihad
,
led
easily
to
strivings
for
religious
uniformity
at
home.
While
the
belief
that
it
was
part
of
the
divine
plan
that
the
Jews
should
survive
in
a
servile
condition
as
providential
witnesses
made
it
impossible
for
the
church
authorities
to
tolerate
the
use
of
force
against
them,
the
Jews
nevertheless
constituted
an
alien
group
and
it
may
be
that
baptism
was
being
forced
on
them
with
the
aim
of
creating
a
uniformly
Christian
society.
Table of contents
- FC
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Text boxes
- Maps
- Illustrations
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Introduction: The crusades and history
- 1. Holy and penitential warfare
- 2. The birth of the crusading movement: The preaching of the First Crusade
- 3. The course of the First Crusade
- 4. The holy places and the patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch
- 5. Settlement, government and defence of the Latin East, 1097–1187
- 6. Crusading in adolescence, 1102–87
- 7. Crusading comes of age, 1187–1229
- 8. Crusading in maturity, 1229–c. 1291
- 9. The Latin East, 1192–c. 1291
- 10. The variety of crusading, c. 1291–1523
- 11. The lingering death of the crusading movement, 1523–1892
- Modern Bibliographical Essay
- Chronology
- Index
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