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What Were the Crusades? Jonathan Riley-Smith

What Were the Crusades? By Jonathan Riley-Smith

What Were the Crusades? by Jonathan Riley-Smith

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Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.

What Were the Crusades? Summary

What Were the Crusades? by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.

What Were the Crusades? Reviews

'None of the growing number of rather good general books on the Crusades performs the same service in anything like the same measure as Riley-Smith's; no bibliography for an undergraduate course can afford to dispense with this book.' - Professor Peter Jackson, Keele University, UK 'An indispensable short introduction to a vast subject.' - Professor Thomas Madden, St Louis University, USA 'A fourth edition, 32 years after the first, is a tribute to the merits of this concise and perceptive book. A.W. Purdue, Times Higher Education 'If Bush had read this book - a new fourth edition of a seminal work first published in 1977 - he might have spoken more carefully on the White House lawn.' - Tribune

About Jonathan Riley-Smith

JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Preface to Second Edition.- Preface to Third Edition.- Preface to Fourth Edition.- Map: The Theatres of War.- What Were the Crusades?.- A Just Cause.- Legitimate Authority.- Who Were the Crusaders?.- When were the Crusades?.- Chronology, 1095-1798.- Select Bibliography of Secondary Works.- Index.

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NLS9780230220690
9780230220690
023022069X
What Were the Crusades? by Jonathan Riley-Smith
Jonathan Riley-Smith
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2009-04-21
136
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