Binding: Paperback
Description: Written by a team of leading scholars this fascinating book 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. Reflecting the recent developments in crusade historiography it covers crusading in many different theatres of war. The concepts of apologists propagandists song - writers and poets and the perceptions and motives of the crusaders themselves are described as are the emotional and intellectual reactions of the Muslims to Christian holy war. The institutional developments - legal financial and structural - which were necessary to the movement's survival - are analysed. Several chapters are devoted to the western settlements established in the eastern Mediterranean region in the wake of the crusades to the remarkable art and architecture associated with them and to the military orders. The subject of the later crusades including the history of the military orders from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries is given the attention it deserves. And the first steps are taken on to a field that is as yet hardly explored - the survival of the ideas and images of crusading into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Title: The Oxford History Of The Crusades
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192803122
Pages: 478 Pages, 16pp Halftone Plates
Publication Date: 6/13/2002
Category: Warfare & Defence