The Crusades
Subtitle: A History
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300101287
Subjects: Medieval; Military - Other; History / General; General; History; History - General History; History: World
First sentence: In the first week of March 1095 Pope Urban II presided over a church council at Piacenza in northern Italy.
Description: "This lively comprehensive history provides a wealth of fascinating detail about the Crusades and the politics and personalities behind them. This new edition includes revisions throughout as well as a new Preface and Afterword in which Jonathan Riley-Smith surveys recent developments in the field and examines responses to the Crusades in different periods, from the Romantics to the Islamic world today, making this the standard and authoritative account of the Crusades"--Back cover.