The Crusades: A History

by Jonathan Riley-Smith, Susanna A. Throop

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350028616
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/23/2023
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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 was Professor and Department Chair 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).

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

If you have been looking for a one-volume survey, you won’t find a better one than this.”

Christianity Today