Jonathan Riley-Smith

What Were the Crusades? (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 scholarship, a new map, material on a child crusader, and a short discussion of the current effects of aggressive Pan-Islamism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137013927
• Artikelnr.: 47896323

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Riley-Smith was Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- Preface to Second Edition.- Preface to Third Edition.- Preface to Fourth Edition.- Map: The Theatres of War.- What Were the Crusades?.- A Just Cause.- Legitimate Authority.- Who Were the Crusaders?.- When were the Crusades?.- Chronology, 1095-1798.- Select Bibliography of Secondary Works.- Index.