Jonathan Harris completed his PhD in 1993 and subsequently taught at University College London, Goldsmiths' College London and King's College London before taking up at post in the History Department at Royal Holloway. His first novel, Theosis, was published in 2023.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades brings together an outstanding group of scholars to discuss the very latest ideas about crusades, revealing them, through illustration and text, as complex phenomena which both reflected and affected all aspects of the lives of medieval people, East and West.

• Introduction Chronology Glossary List of Illustrations List of Maps 1: Marcus Bull: Origins 2: Nicholas Morton: Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1192 3: Jonathan Phillips: The Latin East, 1098-1291 4: Natasha Hodgson: The Role of Women 5: Adrian Boas: Castles and Fortifications 6: Lucy-Anne Hunt: Art and Church Architecture 7: Steve Tibble: Weapons and Tactics 8: Paul Cobb: Islamic Responses 9: Jonathan Harris: The Byzantine Response 10: Rebecca Rist: The Jewish Response 11: Nikolaos G. Chrissis: Crusades against Christians, c.1200-1350 12: Marianne Ailes: Literature, Chronicles and Songs 13: Mike Carr: Crusading in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1291-1500 14: Mark Whelan: Varieties of Crusading, c.1200-c.1500 15: Elizabeth Siberry: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Further Reading Index

Jonathan Harris completed his PhD in 1993 and subsequently taught at University College London, Goldsmiths' College London and King's College London before taking up at post in the History Department at Royal Holloway. His first novel, Theosis, was published in 2023.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades brings together an outstanding group of scholars to discuss the very latest ideas about crusades, revealing them, through illustration and text, as complex phenomena which both reflected and affected all aspects of the lives of medieval people, East and West.

• Introduction Chronology Glossary List of Illustrations List of Maps 1: Marcus Bull: Origins 2: Nicholas Morton: Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1192 3: Jonathan Phillips: The Latin East, 1098-1291 4: Natasha Hodgson: The Role of Women 5: Adrian Boas: Castles and Fortifications 6: Lucy-Anne Hunt: Art and Church Architecture 7: Steve Tibble: Weapons and Tactics 8: Paul Cobb: Islamic Responses 9: Jonathan Harris: The Byzantine Response 10: Rebecca Rist: The Jewish Response 11: Nikolaos G. Chrissis: Crusades against Christians, c.1200-1350 12: Marianne Ailes: Literature, Chronicles and Songs 13: Mike Carr: Crusading in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1291-1500 14: Mark Whelan: Varieties of Crusading, c.1200-c.1500 15: Elizabeth Siberry: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Further Reading Index

Jonathan Harris completed his PhD in 1993 and subsequently taught at University College London, Goldsmiths' College London and King's College London before taking up at post in the History Department at Royal Holloway. His first novel, Theosis, was published in 2023.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades brings together an outstanding group of scholars to discuss the very latest ideas about crusades, revealing them, through illustration and text, as complex phenomena which both reflected and affected all aspects of the lives of medieval people, East and West.

• Introduction Chronology Glossary List of Illustrations List of Maps 1: Marcus Bull: Origins 2: Nicholas Morton: Crusades to the Holy Land, 1095-1192 3: Jonathan Phillips: The Latin East, 1098-1291 4: Natasha Hodgson: The Role of Women 5: Adrian Boas: Castles and Fortifications 6: Lucy-Anne Hunt: Art and Church Architecture 7: Steve Tibble: Weapons and Tactics 8: Paul Cobb: Islamic Responses 9: Jonathan Harris: The Byzantine Response 10: Rebecca Rist: The Jewish Response 11: Nikolaos G. Chrissis: Crusades against Christians, c.1200-1350 12: Marianne Ailes: Literature, Chronicles and Songs 13: Mike Carr: Crusading in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1291-1500 14: Mark Whelan: Varieties of Crusading, c.1200-c.1500 15: Elizabeth Siberry: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Further Reading Index