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| #362730 in Books | 2009-04-30 | Original language:English | 8.75 x5.25 x.25l,.38 | File type: PDF | 128 pages||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating|By Lissi|The book follows a clear outline and presents information in a dispassionate, academic manner. I knew very little about the Crusades to begin with, although I had some vague ideas from my college classes (there were ~7 of them, they were "bad", Christians were at fault). This book presents a much more balanced take on the Crusades and proposes that the reas|||"None of the growing number of rather good general books on the Crusades performs the same service in anything like the same measure as Riley-Smith's; no bibliography for an undergraduate course can afford to dispense with this book."| --|Professor
Few attempts had been made to define 'the crusade' before this book was first published in 1977. Since then, a number of historians have built on Jonathan Riley-Smith's original conclusions. Now in its fourth edition, this classic starting point for the study of the crusading movement has been updated to take into account the latest developments in the field.
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