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Informationen zum Autor 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 theCrusades and the Latin East from 1990 to 1995. Klappentext The story of the Crusades is told as never before in this engrossing, authoritative and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of the crusading ideals and imagery that continue today. in color. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Colour Plates ; List of Maps ; 1. The Crusading Movement and Historians ; 2. Origins ; 3. The Crusading Movement! 1096-1274 ; 4. The State of Mind of Crusaders to the East! 1095-1300 ; 5. Songs ; 6. The Latin East! 1098-1291 ; 7. Art in the Latin East! 1098-1291 ; 8. Architecture in the Latin East! 1098-1571 ; 9. The Military Orders! 1120-1312 ; 10. Islam and the Crusades! 1096-1699 ; 11. The Crusading Movement! 1274-1699 ; 12. The Latin East! 1291-1669 ; 13. The Military Orders! 1312-1798 ; 14. Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ; 15. Revival and Survival ; Chronology ; Further Reading ; Index
