The twelve readings in this volume represent some of the best recent scholarship on the Crusades.
Thomas F. Madden is Associate Professor of History and Chair at Saint Louis University. He has published numerous studies on the crusades including The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople (1997) and A Concise History of the Crusades (1999).
Acknowledgments
vii
Maps
x
Editor's Introduction
1
(12)
Part I What Were the Crusades?
13
(114)
Pope Urban II's Preaching of the First Crusade
15
(16)
H. E. J. Cowdrey
Crusading as an Act of Love
31
(20)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
Reconquest and Crusade in Spain, c. 1050-1150
51
(18)
R. A. Fletcher
Crusades Against Christians: Their Origins and Early Development, c. 1000-1216
69
(30)
Norman Housley
Were There Any Crusades in the Twelfth Century?
99
(28)
Christopher J. Tyerman
Part II Who Were the Crusaders?
127
(82)
Medieval Charters as a Source for the History of the Crusades
129
(26)
Giles Constable
Early Crusaders to the East and the Costs of Crusading, 1095-1130
155
(17)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
The Roots of Lay Enthusiasm for the First Crusade
172
(22)
Marcus Bull
Patronage and the Appeal of the First Crusade
194
(15)
John France
Part III Impact of the Crusades on the East
209
(56)
Byzantium and the Crusades
211
(10)
Sir Steven Runciman
The Reaction of the Syrian Muslims after the Foundation of the First Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
221
(12)
Nikita Elisseeff
The Subjected Muslims of the Frankish Levant
233
(32)
Benjamin Z. Kedar
Index
265
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