The Crusades: A History

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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 A. Throop investigate the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading and the crusaders themselves.
Now in its 4th edition, this landmark text includes:
– A brand new chapter on the Crusades in contemporary popular culture
– More material on women and gender, the rise of Islam, Northern Europe before the Baltic Crusades, the impact of the Mongols and the rise of the Ottomans
– A fuller discussion of the global ‘afterlives’ of crusading circa 1700-2016
– Textboxes looking at key historiographical debates, chapter-by-chapter timelines, chapter abstracts and a fully up-to-date bibliographic essay
– Additional maps and digital versions of visual, material and musical primary sources that are explicitly referenced in the book
The Crusades: A History is the definitive text on the subject for students and scholars alike.

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 is Professor 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).

List of Text Boxes
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface to the Fourth 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, 1102–1187
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
12. The Crusades in Contemporary Popular Culture
Modern Bibliographic Essay
Index

“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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