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.
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.
List of Figures List of Maps Lists of Text Boxes Note on Names and Terminology Preface to the 4th Edition Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Studying the History of the Crusades 2. The Emergence of the First Crusade 3. The First Crusade 4. The Early Crusader States, 1099-1150 5. Diversification, 1099-1150 6. Development, 1150-1198 7. Intensification, 1198-1240 8. Institutionalization, 1198-1240 9. Ambitions and Rebellions, 1240-1300 10. Reimagined, 1300-1370 11. Reconfigured, 1370-1520 12. Persistent, 1520-1750 13. Legacies, 1750 to the 21st Century Afterword Chronology Notes Further Reading Index
An enhanced and expanded 4th edition of Jonathan Riley-Smith's classic single-volume history of the Crusades.
Jonathan Riley-Smith was Emeritus Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK. His many publications on the Crusades include What Were the Crusades? (2009), The Crusades, Christianity and Islam (2008) and The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (1986). Susanna A. Throop was Professor and Department Chair of History at Ursinus College, USA. She is the author of The Crusades: An Epitome (2018) and Crusading as an Act of Vengeance, 1095-1216 (2011). She is also the co-editor of The Crusades and Visual Culture (2015) and Vengeance in the Middle Ages (2010).
The Crusades remains the ‘go-to’ text for anyone interested in the
history of the crusades. This wide-ranging and engaging updated
edition is grounded in the superlative scholarship of Susanna
Throop and the late Jonathan Riley-Smith, and offers new insights
into the nature, practice and memory of holy war. A classic.
*Megan Cassidy-Welch, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, Australian Catholic University, Australia*
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