The Oxford History of the Crusades

by Riley-Smith, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780192803122
• ISBN10: 0192803123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 recentdevelopments 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 Muslimsto 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 theremarkable 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 asyet hardly explored - the survival of the ideas and images of crusading into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	ix
List of Maps	xi
The Crusading Movement and Historians	1	(14)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Origins	15	(20)
Marcus Bull
The Crusading Movement, 1096-1274	35	(33)
Simon Lloyd
The State of Mind of Crusaders to the East, 1095-1300	68	(22)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Songs	90	(21)
Michael Routledge
The Latin East, 1098-1291	111	(27)
Jonathan Phillips
Art in the Latin East, 1098-1291	138	(17)
Jaroslav Folda
Architecture in the Latin East, 1098-1571	155	(21)
Denys Pringle
The Military Orders, 1120-1312	176	(35)
Alan Forey
Islam and the Crusades, 1096-1699	211	(47)
Robert Irwin
The Crusading Movement, 1274-1700	258	(33)
Norman Housley
The Latin East, 1291-1669	291	(32)
Peter Edbury
The Military Orders, 1312-1798	323	(40)
Anthony Luttrell
Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	363	(22)
Elizabeth Siberry
Revival and Survival	385	(5)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Chronology	390	(12)
Further Reading	402	(25)
Index	427