What Were the Crusades?

by Jonathan Riley-Smith

Overview

The book deals with the legitimising authority of the papacy, the nature of the crusade vow and of the privilege accorded to crusaders, the developments of the indulgence, and the role of Military Orders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333213735
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/01/1977
Edition description:	1977
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.
JONATHAN RILEY-SMITH is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to Second Edition
Preface to Third Edition
Preface to Fourth Edition
Map: The Theatres of War
What Were the Crusades?
A Just Cause
Legitimate Authority
Who Were the Crusaders?
When were the Crusades?
Chronology, 1095-1798
Select Bibliography of Secondary Works
Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

None of the growing number of rather good general books on the Crusades performs the same service in anything like the same measure as Riley-Smith's; no bibliography for an undergraduate course can afford to dispense with this book.' - Professor Peter Jackson, Keele University, UK

'An indispensable short introduction to a vast subject.' - Professor Thomas Madden, St Louis University, USA

'A fourth edition, 32 years after the first, is a tribute to the merits of this concise and perceptive book. A.W. Purdue, Times Higher Education 'If Bush had read this book - a new fourth edition of a seminal work first published in 1977 - he might have spoken more carefully on the White House lawn.' - Tribune

Editorial Reviews

'None of the growing number of rather good general books on the Crusades performs the same service in anything like the same measure as Riley-Smith's; no bibliography for an undergraduate course can afford to dispense with this book.' - Professor Peter Jackson, Keele University, UK
'An indispensable short introduction to a vast subject
- Professor Thomas Madden, St Louis University, USA

'An indispensable short introduction to a vast subject'
- Professor Thomas Madden, St Louis University, USA 'None of the growing number of rather good general books on the Crusades performs the same service in anything like the same measure as Riley-Smith's; no bibliography for an undergraduate course can afford to dispense with this book.' - Professor Peter Jackson, Keele University, UK

From the Publisher