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:	9781350028647
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	7 MB

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).
Jonathan Riley-Smith was Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.
Susanna A. Throop was Professor and Department Chair of History at Ursinus College, USA. She is the author of 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 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

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