Search Results for: The First Crusade And Idea Of Crusading

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 hist

""Riley-Smith marshals his case lucidly.""--Times Literary Supplement ""Riley-Smith's analysis of the formation of Crusading ideology offers a provocative new i

Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconcep

According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights libe

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