Table of Contents

List of Plates
List of Maps
1: Jonathan Riley-Smith: The Crusading Movement and Historians
2: Marcus Bull: Origins
3: Simon Lloyd: The Crusading Movement, 1096-1274
4: Jonathan Riley-Smith: The State of Mind of Crusaders to the East, 1095-1300
5: Michael Routledge: Songs
6: Jonathan Phillips: The Latin East, 1098-1291
7: Jaroslav Folda: Art in the Latin East, 1098-1571
8: Denys Pringle: Architecture in the Latin East, 1098-1571
9: Alan Forey: The Military Orders, 1120-1312
10: Robert Irwin: Islam and the Crusades, 1096-1699
11: Norman Housley: The Crusading Movement, 1274-1700
12: Peter Edbury: The Latin East, 1291-1669
13: Anthony Luttrell: The Military Orders, 1312-1798
14: Elizabeth Siberry: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
15: Jonathan Riley-Smith: Revival and Survival
Chronology
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

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 the Crusades and the Latin East from 1990 to 1995.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition makes the results of the recent academic study of the Crusades accessible to a wide section of the general public and succeeds in conveying that this is a living and developing subject, which has far from exhausted its potential
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THES
`The great merit of Professor Riley-Smith's book is to follow the story down to the present day'
Church Times
`Detailed exploration of the plots, intrigue and subterfuge surrounding the events and leading protagonists make for fascinating reading'
Universe
`fascinating ... a comprehensive history of the wars'
History Today
`In a series of finely-crafted and admirably succinct essays the contributors unravel a number of important medieval political and religious themes. This comprehensive approach adds a great deal to the book's interest and presents some of the best insights of modern Crusading scholarship ... excellent'
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