Название: The Crusades: A History, 4th edition
Автор: Jonathan Riley-Smith, Susanna A. Throop
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Год: 2023
Страниц: 481
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 41.9 MB
This fully updated and expanded edition of The Crusades: A History provides an authoritative exploration of one of the most significant topics in medieval and religious history. From the First Crusade right up to the present day, Jonathan Riley-Smith and Susanna Throop investigate the phenomenon of crusading and the crusaders themselves. This book attempts to provide as comprehensive a history of the crusades as is possible in a single volume. Its intended audiences are upper-level undergraduates, graduate/postgraduate students, and scholars who have need of a general historical survey. In a landscape positively crammed with single-volume histories of the crusades, it is distinguished by: a deepened engagement with the approach of pluralism and, as a result, the length and breadth of the narrative; avoidance of a grand or centralizing narrative structure; careful structure and organization; and attention to questions of language and terminology.