The Cambridge History of the Crusades: Volume 3, Crusading in the West and the Legacies of the Crusades

M. Cecilia Gaposchkin is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. She is a historian of high and late medieval cultural and religious history, and has written on (Saint) Louis IX, the Capetians, royal ideology, the Crusades, Liturgy, Relics, and royal ideology. Among other books, she is the author of Invisible Weapons: Liturgy and Making of Crusade Ideology (2017). Andrew Jotischky is Professor of Medieval History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of several books on aspects of medieval religious life, including The Monastic World: A 1200 Year History (2024); Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States (2020), with Bernard Hamilton; he has also co-edited four collections of essays, most recently A Companion to Medieval Pilgrimage (2024), with William Purkis. Thomas Madden is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University. His previous books include The Fall of Republics: A History (2026), Istanbul (2016), and Venice: A New History (2012). Jonathan Phillips is Professor of Crusading History at Royal Holloway, University of London. His most recent book was the widely-translated The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (2019). Earlier titles include Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades (2009); The Second Crusade: Extending the Frontiers of Christendom (2007); and The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (2004). He was also co-editor of Crusades (2009–25).

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• List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Contributors to Volume III; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Editor's Introduction to the Series; Part I. Crusading and Crusading Cultures in the West: 1. The preaching of the Crusades, c.1095–c.1291 Jessalynn Bird; 2. Crusaders and Jews in the Latin West Christoph Maier; 3. Canon law and the Crusades Brett Whalen; 4. Liturgy and Crusade Cecilia Gaposchkin; 5. Crusades and Prophecy Jay Rubenstein; 6. Gender and the Crusades Natasha Hodgson; 7. Royal Ideology and the Crusades James Naus; 8. The Italian city communes and the Crusades Eddie Coleman; 9. European aristocratic culture and the Crusades Nicholas Paul; 10. Archaeology of the Baltic Crusades Aleks Pluskowski; 11. The military orders in the west Damien Carraz; Part II. Development and Diversification: 12. Albigensian Crusade Damian Smith; 13. Crusading in Iberia, c.1060–1212 Simon Barton; 14. Crusading in Iberia, c.1212–c.1492 Nikolas Jaspert; 15. Crusading in the north Kurt Villads Jensen and Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen; 16. The Prussian Crusade and the Teutonic Knights TKN and Kurt Villads Jensen; 17. Crusading from c.1291 to c.1396 Norman Housley; 18. Crusading in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Christopher Tyerman; Part III. The Legacy of the Crusades: 19. The modern memory and legacy of the Crusades in the west Mike Horswell 20. Playing Crusaders: literature, art, etc., film and games Mike Horswell and Felix Hinz; 21. The Memory of the Crusades in the Muslim Near East Jonathan Phillips; Index.