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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 up...

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 up...

Was ist eigentlich ein Kreuzzug? Wie wurde er organisiert und von den Teilnehmern erlebt? Kreuzzüge sind nicht nur die Kriegszüge im Nahen Osten, die vom 11. bis 13. Jahrhundert die mittelalterliche Welt in Atem hielten. Kreuzzüge haben bis in die Neuzeit auf vielen Kriegsschauplätzen in Europa stattgefunden. Das ist die anfangs so umstrittene wie großartige These von Jonathan Riley-Smith, dem Doyen einer pluralistischen Kreuzzugsgeschichte. V...

The Hospitallers were a crusading order, founded in Jerusalem and devoted both to nursing and fighting the Infidel. This history traces the development of the Order of St John from 1099 through a mid-19th-century redefinition to its current position as a leading provider of emergency medical care.

Per settecento anni, dall'XI al XVIII secolo, papi e vescovi hanno rivolto accorati richiami ai credenti perché, nel nome della croce, andassero a combattere contro gli infedeli, che si trattasse degli ultimi pagani d'Europa in Livonia, degli eretici in Francia e Boemia, dei maomettani in Spagna e nel vicino oriente. Quasi sempre questi appelli suscitarono entusiasmo e consensi, con una larga partecipazione di nobili, cavalieri e gente comune....

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Third edition of this definitive, comprehensive, yet accessible textbook covering this key topic in medieval and religious history. Jonathan Riley-Smith, a world authority on the subject, explores the organisation of a crusade, the experience of crusading, and the crusaders themselves. This new edition expands its scope to cover the decline of crusading in the nineteenth century, substantial new material on theory, historiography and translate...

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The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, the Balkans, the Baltic region, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars were waged against Muslims and other enemies of the Church, enlisting generations of laymen and laywomen to fight for the sake of Christendom.Crusa...

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Riley-Smith marshals his case lucidly."--Times Literary Supplement"Riley-Smith's analysis of the formation of Crusading ideology offers a provocative new interpretation. . . . [His] scholarship is impeccable, and he supports his contentions with

Was ist eigentlich ein Kreuzzug? Wie wurde er organisiert und von den Teilnehmern erlebt? Kreuzzüge sind nicht nur die Kriegszüge im Nahen Osten, die vom 11. bis 13. Jahrhundert die mittelalterliche Welt in Atem hielten. Kreuzzüge haben bis in die Neuzeit auf vielen Kriegsschauplätzen in Europa stattgefunden. Das ist die anfangs so umstrittene wie großartige These von Jonathan Riley-Smith, dem Doyen einer pluralistischen Kreuzzugsgeschichte. V...

Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.

In this classic work, presented here with a new introduction, one of the world's most renowned crusade historians approaches this central topic of medieval history with freshness and impeccable research.

The Templars and the Hospitallers were the two major Military Orders of the Roman Catholic Church from the early twelfth to the middle of the thirteenth century. This title discusses the origins of the orders in dedication to the protection of pilgrims to the Holy Land (Templars) and to the care of the poor and the sick among them (Hospitallers).

A detailed account of the circumstances and motives of the first crusaders.

In this collection of essays, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideals and imagery that continues today. Here are the ideas of apologists, propagandists, and poets about the Crusades, as well as the perceptions and motives of the crusaders themselves and the means by which they joined the movement. T...

The story of the Crusades is told as never before in this engrossing, authoritative and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of the crusading ideals and imagery that continue today. in color.

A complete analysis of the First Crusade, including the latest research and a new introduction.