Norman Housley was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1952, and educated there and at Cambridge University. Since 1983 he has worked at the University of Leicester, holding visiting fellowships at Oxford, Princeton, and Washington. Housley has spent his professional life working on the crusades, with the emphasis on crusading in the late Middle Ages. He has published thirteen authored or edited books on the crusades. He has enjoyed a long relationship with Oxford University Press, with whom this is his fifth book.

Overall, it is an impressive contribution to Housleys voluminous body of work on crusading in a Europe undergoing significant political, religious, and cultural transformation.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Underpinnings: antagonisms and allegiances ; 3. Strategy, mobilization, and control ; 4. Recruitment and finance ; 5. Communication ; 6. Indulgences and the crusade against the Turks ; 7. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Norman Housley was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1952, and educated there and at Cambridge University. Since 1983 he has worked at the University of Leicester, holding visiting fellowships at Oxford, Princeton, and Washington. Housley has spent his professional life working on the crusades, with the emphasis on crusading in the late Middle Ages. He has published thirteen authored or edited books on the crusades. He has enjoyed a long relationship with Oxford University Press, with whom this is his fifth book.

Overall, it is an impressive contribution to Housleys voluminous body of work on crusading in a Europe undergoing significant political, religious, and cultural transformation.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Underpinnings: antagonisms and allegiances ; 3. Strategy, mobilization, and control ; 4. Recruitment and finance ; 5. Communication ; 6. Indulgences and the crusade against the Turks ; 7. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

Norman Housley was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire in 1952, and educated there and at Cambridge University. Since 1983 he has worked at the University of Leicester, holding visiting fellowships at Oxford, Princeton, and Washington. Housley has spent his professional life working on the crusades, with the emphasis on crusading in the late Middle Ages. He has published thirteen authored or edited books on the crusades. He has enjoyed a long relationship with Oxford University Press, with whom this is his fifth book.

Overall, it is an impressive contribution to Housleys voluminous body of work on crusading in a Europe undergoing significant political, religious, and cultural transformation.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Underpinnings: antagonisms and allegiances ; 3. Strategy, mobilization, and control ; 4. Recruitment and finance ; 5. Communication ; 6. Indulgences and the crusade against the Turks ; 7. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index