Riley-Smith’s acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which surveys and reviews developments in crusading…

The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, the Balkans, the Baltic region, and Western…

Riley-Smith’s 1986 book gives convincing case for a ‘revisionist’ view of the crusades, challenging the common belief that the crusades were motivated by fanaticism and were designed to plunder the…

The fourth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the eleventh and twelfth centuries, perhaps the most dynamic period in the European middle ages. The volume is divided into…

The subject of the crusades is enormous, covering 700 years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798). This journal makes available historical sources - narrative, homiletic…

Covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from…

The complete seven volumes of The New Cambridge Medieval History provides all those interested in the medieval world with the definitive work of reference on the subject. Authoritative and written…