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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
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Product Description
Written by a team of leading scholars, this richly illustrated book, with over 200 colour and black and white pictures, presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #40585 in Books
- Published on: 2001-01-18
- Format: Illustrated
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 470 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith is Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge University and has been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1994. He has published widely on medieval history and the Crusades and his books include What were the Crusades? (1977), The Crusades: idea and reality (1981), The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (1986), and The Atlas of the Crusades (1991). He was President of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin
East from 1990 to 1995.
Customer Reviews
Historical facts. No more.
This is a very important book for people who want to know the facts without stories of romance and chivalry. It is very well organized with chapters dedicated to all the aspects of life from the time of the Crusades, aspects ranging from the military orders in various periods of time to the evolution of crusading literature. I recommend this book for people who need an overview of the period of the Crusades. It is also advisable, in order to comprehend the whole picture of the Crusades, to read opinions from the Muslim side. A very good book in this region is "Arab Historians of the Crusades" (The Islamic World Series) by Francesco Gabrieli.
An excellently organized and well illustrated book.
This is an excellently organized and well illustrated book written with a general readership in mind. It summarises current opinions and supplements Sir Steven Runciman's classic history of the Crusades. The writers have made the most of original administrative, literary and legal documents. The chapters on Crusader's Songs and on the image of the crusades in modern times are of particular interest.
