What is a crusade? How was it organised and experienced by the participants? Crusades are not just the war campaigns in the Middle East that kept the medieval world in suspense from the 11th to the 13th century. Crusades have taken place in many theatres of war in Europe right up to modern times. This is the thesis, initially as controversial as it is magnificent, of Jonathan Riley-Smith, the doyen of a pluralistic history of the Crusades.
From the Crusader states of the Middle Ages to the Crusades in the Baltic to the disappearance of the Crusade idea in the 18th and 19th centuries, Riley-Smith here spreads out a grand panorama of the Crusades in all their historical variations. This groundbreaking standard work is now available in German for the first time. The translation is based on Riley-Smith's thoroughly revised new English edition and, in addition to pictures and maps, includes an extensive annotated bibliography.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Riley-Smith, Jonathan
Title
Die Kreuzzüge
Details
7 bw-illustr. and bw-11 maps. 484 pp.
State
new
Herder Verlag GmbH Hermann-Herder-Str. 4 79104 Freiburg Deutschland
