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The Experience of Crusading

Volume 1. Western Approaches

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Editors:
Marcus Bull, University of Bristol
Norman Housley, University of Leicester

Norman Housley, Marcus Bull, Giles Constable, Christopher Marshall, Jonathan Phillips, James M. Powell, John H. Pryor, Anna Sapir Abulafia, James A. Brundage, Penny J. Cole, H. E. J. Cowdrey, John France, Christoph T. Maier, Anthony Luttrell, Helen Nicholson, Susan Edgington, Elizabeth Siberry

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Date Published: June 2003
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521811682

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The study of the crusades is one of the most thriving areas of medieval history. This collection of seventeen essays by leading researchers in the field reflects the best of contemporary scholarship. The subjects handled are remarkably wide-ranging, focusing on the theory and practice of crusading and the contributions which were made by the military orders. Chronologically, the essays range from the church's approach towards warfare in the pre-crusade era, to the way in which the First Crusade has been depicted in post-war fiction. Together with its companion volume, The Experience of Crusading: Volume 2. Defining the Crusader Kingdom, edited by Peter Edbury and Jonathan Phillips, this collection has been published to celebrate the 65th birthday of Jonathan Riley-Smith, the leading British historian of the crusades. The volume includes an appreciation of his work on the crusades and on the military orders.
- A collection of 17 new essays by some of the world's leading scholars in the field of the Crusades
- Displays a remarkable chronological range, from the church's approach towards warfare before the crusades, to depictions of the first Crusade in post-war fiction
- Offers an excellent introduction to a range of subject areas and problems to this, one of the most exciting fields in medieval history
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'This is certainly a Festschrift to be welcomed …' Alan Borg, Church Times
'It is a splendid collection for interested readers and undergraduates as well as a barometer to the state of research and opinion within historians … [it gives] us an up-to-date understanding of many, if not all, the aspects that make up the Crusading world.' Contemporary Review
'… there is something for everyone here …' Church Times
'It is a splendid collection for interested readers and undergraduates as well as a barometer to the state of research and opinion within historians … Anyone wishing a general introduction to this fascinating period and one which is told with erudition and understanding should look no further.' Contemporary Review
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Product details
- Date Published: June 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521811682
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus. 2 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Jonathan Riley-Smith, the crusades and the military orders: an appreciation Norman Housley and Marcus Bull
Part I. The Crusades and Crusading:
1. Views of Muslims and of Jerusalem in miracle stories, c. 1000–c. 1200: reflections on the study of first crusaders' motivations Marcus Bull
2. A further note on the conquest of Lisbon in 1147 Giles Constable
3. Costing the crusade: budgeting for crusading activity in the fourteenth century Norman Housley
4. The crusading motivation of the Italian city republics in the Latin East, c. 1096–1104 Christopher Marshall
5. Odo of Deuil's De profectione Ludovici VII in orientem as a source for the second crusade Jonathan Phillips
6. Innocent III and Alexius III: a crusade plan that failed James M. Powell
7. The Venetian fleet for the fourth crusade and the diversion of the crusade to Constantinople John H. Pryor
Part II. The Catholic Church and the Crusade:
8. The conquest of Jerusalem: Joachim of Fiore and the Jews Anna Sapir Abulafia
9. Crusades, clerics, and violence: reflections on a canonical theme James A. Brundage
10. Humbert of Romans and the crusade Penny J. Cole
11. Christianity and the morality of warfare during the first century of crusading H. E. J. Cowdrey
12. Holy war and holy men: Erdmann and the lives of the saints John France
13. The Bible moralisée and the crusades Christoph T. Maier
14. The hospitallers in twelfth-century Constantinople Anthony Luttrell
15. Serving king and crusade: the military orders in royal service in Ireland, 1220–1400 Helen Nicholson
Part III. Retrospective:
16. The first crusade in post-war fiction Susan Edgington
17. Nineteenth-century perspectives of the first crusade Elizabeth Siberry.
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Editors
Marcus Bull, University of Bristol
Marcus Bull is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Bristol.
Norman Housley, University of Leicester
Norman Housley is Professor of History, University of Leicester.
Contributors
Norman Housley, Marcus Bull, Giles Constable, Christopher Marshall, Jonathan Phillips, James M. Powell, John H. Pryor, Anna Sapir Abulafia, James A. Brundage, Penny J. Cole, H. E. J. Cowdrey, John France, Christoph T. Maier, Anthony Luttrell, Helen Nicholson, Susan Edgington, Elizabeth Siberry