James A. Brundage, University of Kansas, USA

'This book will be a useful work of reference to history and theology students at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. It will also be a welcome acquisition for post-doctoral researchers in the fields of Crusades, Canon Law and the history of medieval women.' Theological Book Review

• Contents: Adhemar of Puy: the bishop and his critics; An errant crusader: Stephen of Blois; The Crusade of Richard I; Two canonical quaestiones; Richard the Lion-Heart and Byzantium; The army of the First Crusade and the crusade vow: some reflections on a recent book; The votive obligations of crusaders: the development of a canonistic doctrine; 'Cruce signari': the rite for taking the cross in England; A note on the attestation of crusaders' vows; St Anselm, Ivo of Chartres and the ideology of the First Crusade; Holy war and the medieval lawyers; The limits of the war-making power: the contribution of medieval canonists; A 12th-century Oxford disputation concerning the privileges of the Knights Hospitallers; A transformed angel (X. 3.31.18): the problem of the crusading monk; The 13th-century Livonian Crusade: Henricus de Lettis and the first legatine mission of Bishop William de Modena; The crusader's wife: a canonistic quandary; The crusader's wife revisited; Marriage law in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem; Christian marriage in 13th-century Livonia; Prostitution, miscegenation, and sexual purity in the First Crusade; Second thoughts; Index.

James A. Brundage, University of Kansas, USA

'This book will be a useful work of reference to history and theology students at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. It will also be a welcome acquisition for post-doctoral researchers in the fields of Crusades, Canon Law and the history of medieval women.' Theological Book Review

• Contents: Adhemar of Puy: the bishop and his critics; An errant crusader: Stephen of Blois; The Crusade of Richard I; Two canonical quaestiones; Richard the Lion-Heart and Byzantium; The army of the First Crusade and the crusade vow: some reflections on a recent book; The votive obligations of crusaders: the development of a canonistic doctrine; 'Cruce signari': the rite for taking the cross in England; A note on the attestation of crusaders' vows; St Anselm, Ivo of Chartres and the ideology of the First Crusade; Holy war and the medieval lawyers; The limits of the war-making power: the contribution of medieval canonists; A 12th-century Oxford disputation concerning the privileges of the Knights Hospitallers; A transformed angel (X. 3.31.18): the problem of the crusading monk; The 13th-century Livonian Crusade: Henricus de Lettis and the first legatine mission of Bishop William de Modena; The crusader's wife: a canonistic quandary; The crusader's wife revisited; Marriage law in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem; Christian marriage in 13th-century Livonia; Prostitution, miscegenation, and sexual purity in the First Crusade; Second thoughts; Index.

James A. Brundage, University of Kansas, USA

'This book will be a useful work of reference to history and theology students at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. It will also be a welcome acquisition for post-doctoral researchers in the fields of Crusades, Canon Law and the history of medieval women.' Theological Book Review

• Contents: Adhemar of Puy: the bishop and his critics; An errant crusader: Stephen of Blois; The Crusade of Richard I; Two canonical quaestiones; Richard the Lion-Heart and Byzantium; The army of the First Crusade and the crusade vow: some reflections on a recent book; The votive obligations of crusaders: the development of a canonistic doctrine; 'Cruce signari': the rite for taking the cross in England; A note on the attestation of crusaders' vows; St Anselm, Ivo of Chartres and the ideology of the First Crusade; Holy war and the medieval lawyers; The limits of the war-making power: the contribution of medieval canonists; A 12th-century Oxford disputation concerning the privileges of the Knights Hospitallers; A transformed angel (X. 3.31.18): the problem of the crusading monk; The 13th-century Livonian Crusade: Henricus de Lettis and the first legatine mission of Bishop William de Modena; The crusader's wife: a canonistic quandary; The crusader's wife revisited; Marriage law in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem; Christian marriage in 13th-century Livonia; Prostitution, miscegenation, and sexual purity in the First Crusade; Second thoughts; Index.