Jonathan Riley-Smith, Susanna A. Throop

The Crusades: A History (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350028630
• Artikelnr.: 66994173

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Riley-Smith was Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

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