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The Crusades: A History
About this book
This fully updated and expanded edition of The Crusades: A History provides an authoritative exploration of one of the most significant topics in medieval and religious history. From the First Crusade right up to the present day, Jonathan Riley-Smith and Susanna Throop investigate the phenomenon of crusading and the crusaders themselves. Now in its 4th edition, this landmark text includes: - A new and more balanced book structure with updated terminology designed to help instructors and students alike
- Deliberate incorporation of a wider range of historical perspectives, including Byzantine and Islamic historiographies, crusading against Christians and within Europe, women and gender, and the crusades in the context of Afro-Eurasian history
- A dramatically expanded discussion of crusading from the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries
- A fully up-to-date bibliographic essay
- Additional textboxes, maps, and images The Crusades: A History is the definitive text on the subject for students and scholars alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Note on Names and Terminology
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Studying the History of the Crusades
- 2 The Emergence of the First Crusade
- 3 The First Crusade
- 4 The Early Crusader States, 1099β1150
- 5 Diversification, 1099β150
- 6 Development, 1150β98
- 7 Intensification, 1198β1240
- 8 Institutionalization, 1198β1240
- 9 Ambitions and Rebellions, 1240β1300
- 10 Reimagined, 1300β70
- 11 Reconfigured, 1370β1520
- 12 Persistent, 1520β1750
- 13 Legacies, 1750 to the Twenty-First Century
- Afterword
- Chronology
- Notes
- Further Reading: Updated with the Assistance of Andrew D. Buck
- Index
- Copyright