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The World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman 9780300274219
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology,... -
Chronicles of the First Crusade by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!'The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of Western European... -
The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Crusading fervour gripped Europe for over 200 years, creating one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian... -
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.40The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East is one of the most extraordinary of all epics. The crusaders'... -
The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010 by Christopher Tyerman 9780719073212
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.73David Hume, the eighteenth century philosopher, famously declared that 'the crusades engrossed the attention of Europe and have ever since engaged the curiosity of man kind'. This is the first book... -
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan... -
Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades Jonathan Phillips 9781845950781
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings - on... -
Chronicles of the Crusades by sire de Jean Joinville
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint Louis by John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts of going to war in the service of God. In the first years of the... -
Jesus: Nativity - Passion - Resurrection by Geza Vermes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99The Nativity, Passion and Resurrection are the three defining episodes in the life of Jesus, forming the foundations of the Christian tradition. But what is the truth behind these epoch-making... -
The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation by Aleksander Pluskowski 9781789148688
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $20.37This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful... -
The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade by John D. Hosler
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.55The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was... -
Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule Katherine Pangonis 9781474614092
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being...