'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

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.
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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.
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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.

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'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
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The widely established starting point, by the leading authority in the field, for any study of the crusades

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780230220690
Publisert
2009-04-21
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
180 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
136 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
Lower undergraduate, UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
136

Biografisk notat

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