Crusades: A History

Jonathan Riley-Smith is Emeritus Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK. His many publications on the Crusades include What Were the Crusades? (2009), The Crusades, Christianity and Islam (2008) and The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (1986).

• List of Text BoxesList of MapsList of IllustrationsPreface to the Third EditionIntroduction - The Crusades and History1. Holy and Penitential Warfare2. The Birth of the Crusading Movement:The Preaching of the First Crusade3. The Course of the First Crusade4. The Holy Places and the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch5. Settlement, Government and Defence of the Latin East, 1097–11876. Crusading in Adolescence, 1102–11877. Crusading comes of Age, 1187–12298. Crusading in Maturity, 1229–c. 12919. The Latin East, 1192–c. 129110. The Variety of Crusading, c. 1291–152311. The Lingering Death of the Crusading Movement, 1523–1892Modern Bibliographic EssayChronologyIndex