num_pages: 224
description: This richly illustrated history of the crusades comprises specialist contributions by some familiar names in crusader studies. These are supported by easily digestible digressions which look at the personalities, their motivations, the battles and lots of other themes which provide useful background information to the scholarly narratives. Colour photographs of buildings and places, colour illustrations of people and works of art, reconstruction drawings and manuscript illuminations all lep to make this an invaluable introduction to five centuries of crusades and religious conflict. Contributors: Alfred J Andrea, John France, Helen Nicholson, Thomas F Madden, William L Urban, James M Powell, Jonathan Harris, Carole Hillebrand.
language: English
title: Crusades: The Illustrated History
titlecomplete: Crusades: The Illustrated History
genres: Medieval, History, Religion, War, Nonfiction, Medieval History, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 166
publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers Ltd