The Crusades: The Essential ReadingsISBN: 978-0-631-23023-6
Paperback
290 pages
July 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Brings together for the first time some of the best recent scholarship on the Crusades.
- Introduces fundamental concepts of crusading to students.
- Steers students through the mass of modern scholarly literature on the subject.
- Focuses not on individual crusades but on the political, economic, spiritual, and demographic factors behind these medieval holy wars and on their consequences.
- Includes an opening introduction summarising relevant historical events and providing an overview of the historiography as well as introductions to the entries.