Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley describes and analyses the principal exp
Originally written as preparatory studies for books or contributions to conferences, festschrifts, or collaborative publications, the 18 articles are reproduced from journal publication between 1980 a
Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European socie
The fifty years that followed Mehmed II's capture of Constantinople in 1453 witnessed a substantial attempt to revive the crusade as the principal military mechanism for defending Christian Europe aga
Many books have been written about the Crusades, but until now none has described in detail what it was like to take part in medieval Europe's most ambitious wars. This book draws on extensive resear
This collection of essays by European and American scholars addresses the changing nature and appeal of crusading during the period which extended from the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 to the battle of
This will be the first collection of translated documents to appear in any language on the crusading movement in the late middle ages. The texts have been carefully selected to illuminate as wide a ra
During the Central Middle Ages Catholics had the opportunity to take part in Holy War in the Latin East in two different but related ways, by taking the Cross and by entering the Order of the Temple.
This collection of essays by eight leading scholars is a landmark event in the study of crusading in the late middle ages. It is the outcome of an international network funded by the Leverhulme Trust
This collection of thirty-four essays by leading researchers in Medieval History focuses on the history of the Latin East and its role in the context of Mediterranean trade and Near Eastern political
