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.