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Author:   Jonathan Riley-Smith
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780754659679

ISBN 10:   0754659674
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   28 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Preface; Present and past. Part 1 Crusading: Casualties and the number of knights on the 1st Crusade; Early crusaders to the East and the costs of crusading, 1095-1130; Family traditions and participation in the 2nd Crusade; Toward an understanding of the 4th Crusade as an institution; Crusading as an act of love; Christian violence and the crusades; The politics of war: France and the Holy Land. Part 2 The Latin East: Families, crusades and settlement in the Latin East, 1102-1131; Some lesser officials in Latin Syria; Government in Latin Syria and the commercial privileges of foreign merchants; King Fulk of Jerusalem and 'the Sultan of Babylon'; Government and the indigenous in the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem; The crown of France and Acre, 1254-1291. Part 3 The Military Orders in the Central Middle Ages: The origins of the commandery in the Temple and the Hospital; Guy of Lusignan, the Hospitallers and the gates of Acre; Further thoughts on the layout of the Hospital in Acre; Were the Templars guilty?; The structures of the Orders of the Temple and the Hospital in c. 1291. Part 4 The Shadow of Crusading: The Order of St John, 1827-1858; Islam and the crusades in history and imagination, 8 November 1898-11 September 2001; Index.

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Jonathan Riley-Smith was formerly Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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