Giles Constable is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

’The difficulty of understanding what crusading in the twelfth century was all about and whether or not the crusade as an institution already existed at the time will continue to occupy historians of the crusade. Constable’s crucial contributions toward these debates are given renewed force and importance by this collection of articles.’ The Catholic Historical Review ’From cover to cover this volume is bursting with some of the most important crusade scholarship of the past fifty years. With a remarkable breadth of knowledge Constable has changed the way that historians understand the crusades. The essays in this volume are how he did it.’ The Medieval Review ’The scholarship is, as is always the case with Constable, impeccable. The range of source material used is very wide and the judgements are weighty and authoritative.’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History ’... ce volume nous apporte une véritable révision de notre perception du mouvement de croisade dans son ensemble entre 1095 et 1204.’ Jean Richard, Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 'This collection of thirteen studies by Giles Constable is very welcome.' Bulletin of the German Historical Institute

• Contents: Introduction; The historiography of the crusades; The cross of the crusaders; Medieval charters as a source for the history of the crusades; The financing of the crusades; The place of the crusader in medieval society; The military orders; Cluny and the First Crusade; Early crusading in Eastern Germany: the Magdeburg charter of 1107/8; The three lives of Odo Arpinus: Viscount of Bourges, crusader, monk of Cluny; The Second Crusade as seen by contemporaries; Two notes on the Anglo-Flemish crusaders of 1147-8; Crusading project of 1150; The Fourth Crusade; Appendices: The terminology of crusading; The numbering of the crusades; Indexes.

Giles Constable is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA

’The difficulty of understanding what crusading in the twelfth century was all about and whether or not the crusade as an institution already existed at the time will continue to occupy historians of the crusade. Constable’s crucial contributions toward these debates are given renewed force and importance by this collection of articles.’ The Catholic Historical Review ’From cover to cover this volume is bursting with some of the most important crusade scholarship of the past fifty years. With a remarkable breadth of knowledge Constable has changed the way that historians understand the crusades. The essays in this volume are how he did it.’ The Medieval Review ’The scholarship is, as is always the case with Constable, impeccable. The range of source material used is very wide and the judgements are weighty and authoritative.’ Journal of Ecclesiastical History ’... ce volume nous apporte une véritable révision de notre perception du mouvement de croisade dans son ensemble entre 1095 et 1204.’ Jean Richard, Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 'This collection of thirteen studies by Giles Constable is very welcome.' Bulletin of the German Historical Institute

• Contents: Introduction; The historiography of the crusades; The cross of the crusaders; Medieval charters as a source for the history of the crusades; The financing of the crusades; The place of the crusader in medieval society; The military orders; Cluny and the First Crusade; Early crusading in Eastern Germany: the Magdeburg charter of 1107/8; The three lives of Odo Arpinus: Viscount of Bourges, crusader, monk of Cluny; The Second Crusade as seen by contemporaries; Two notes on the Anglo-Flemish crusaders of 1147-8; Crusading project of 1150; The Fourth Crusade; Appendices: The terminology of crusading; The numbering of the crusades; Indexes.