What Were the Crusades? PDF book is popular History book written by Jonathan Riley-Smith. The book was released by Bloomsbury Publishing on 2017-09-16 with total hardcover pages 136. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read What Were the Crusades? by Jonathan Riley-Smith in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
Riley-Smith's acclaimed book is now regarded as a classic short study. The updated fourth edition of this essential introduction features a new Preface which su
"Pulls off the enviable feat of summing up seven centuries of religious warfare in a crisp 309 pages of text."--Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post Book World In t
Despite various studies on the development of crusading thought, the First Crusade itself has not been properly examined from this perspective. Drawing on a ran
The Hospitallers were a religious order, founded in Jerusalem by 1099, devoted to nursing and to fighting the infidel. With their fellow knights, the Templars,
