The Crusades by Jonathan Riley-smith

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The Crusades by Jonathan Riley-Smith

What exactly is a crusade? How was it organized and experienced by its participants? The Crusades are not only the wars in the Middle East that kept the medieval world in suspense between the 11th and 13th centuries. The Crusades have taken place in many theaters of war in Europe right up to modern times. This is the grand, initially controversial, thesis of Jonathan Riley-Smith, the dean of pluralistic crusade history. From the Crusader states of the Middle Ages to the Crusades in the Baltic countries and the disappearance of the idea of ​​the Crusades in the 18th and 19th centuries, Riley-Smith presents a comprehensive overview of the Crusades in all their historical variations. This groundbreaking standard work is now available in German for the first time. The translation is based on the new English edition, which was fundamentally revised by Riley-Smith, and includes pictures and maps, as well as an extensively annotated bibliography.

The author :

Prof. dr. riley-smith, jonathan

Jonathan Riley-Smith, born in 1938, is a professor of Church History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is considered one of the most renowned historians of the Crusades.

Translated from English by Tobias Gabel and Hannes Möhring.

- Number of pages: 484
- Edition: 1
- Hardcover
- Language: German
- Illustrations: 7 sw 11 cards