Oxford History of the Crusades

Name: Oxford History of the Crusades
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ISBN: 9780192803122

ISBN-10: 0192803123

ISBN-13: 9780192803122

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jonathan Riley-Smith

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Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades, from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. Reflecting the recent developments in crusade historiography, it covers crusading in many different theatres of war. The concepts of apologists, propagandists, song-writers, and poets, and the perceptions and motives of the crusaders themselves are described, as are the emotional and intellectual reactions of the Muslims to Christian holy war. The institutional developments - legal, financial, and structural - which were necessary to the movement's survival - are…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/13/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 470
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Plates


List of Maps



The Crusading Movement and Historians




Origins




The Crusading Movement, 1096-1274




The State of Mind of Crusaders to the East, 1095-1300




Songs




The Latin East, 1098-1291




Art in the Latin East, 1098-1571




Architecture in the Latin East, 1098-1571




The Military Orders, 1120-1312




Islam and the Crusades, 1096-1699




The Crusading Movement, 1274-1700




The Latin East, 1291-1669




The Military Orders, 1312-1798




Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries




Revival and Survival



Chronology


Further Reading


Index