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The Invention of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman 9780333669020
Booksplease Price: £37.42What were the 'Crusades'? Were the great Christian expeditions to invade the Holy Land in fact 'Crusades' at all? In this radical and compelling new treatment, Christopher Tyerman questions the... -
Chronicles of the First Crusade by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'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 World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman 9780300274219
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55A 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,... -
The Crusades: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Crusading 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... -
England and the Crusades, 1095-1588 by Christopher Tyerman 9780226820132
Booksplease Price: £36.35A potent mix of salvation and adventure, the Crusades were one of the most prominent features of medieval Europe, reflecting and directing religious and secular movements in Western society for half... -
The Debate on the Crusades, 1099-2010 by Christopher Tyerman 9780719073212
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.47David 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... -
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.97The 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 9780719073205
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £75.20David 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... -
Crusading Europe: Essays in Honour of Christopher Tyerman by Gregory Lippiatt 9782503579962
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £70.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503579962Author Gregory LippiattFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols... -
The Practices of Crusading: Image and Action from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The crusades influenced western European society in the middle ages far beyond the military campaigns themselves. Reactions and involvement did not always follow the assumptions of ideology or... -
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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... -
The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading by Damien Peters 9781912302741
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith's... -
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Robert Houghton
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that the crusaders attacked was used only... -
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages Stephen Harris 9780415871136
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Interest in the middle ages is at an all time high at the moment, thanks in part to "The Da Vinci Code." Never has there been a moment more propitious for a study of our misconceptions of the Middle... -
Chronicles of the Crusades by sire de Jean Joinville
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.82The 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 Medieval World by Peter Linehan 9781138848696
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £64.24Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the... -
The Teutonic Knights: Rise and Fall of a Religious Corporation by Aleksander Pluskowski 9781789148688
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.82This 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 Counts of Tripoli and Lebanon in the Twelfth Century: Sons of Saint-Gilles by Kevin James Lewis
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38The county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the most neglected of the so-called 'crusader states' established in the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The... -
Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem: Volume 2: Books 7-12. The Early History of the Latin States, 1099-1119 by 9781409466536
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem presents the story of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and the first generation of Latin settlers in the Levant (1099-1119). Volume 2, The Early... -
The Black Cross: A History of the Baltic Crusades Aleksander Pluskowski 9780300279061
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23A wide-ranging new history of the Baltic Crusades and their legacy Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in... -
The Crusades and the Near East: Cultural Histories by Conor Kostick
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high. As this edited volume reveals, however, the era was one... -
Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land Steve Tibble 9780300276077
Booksplease Price: £29.34A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality... -
Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States Bernard Hamilton 9781108816090
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.74Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of... -
Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States by Bernard Hamilton
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £90.49Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life both in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of... -
Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain Steve Tibble 9780300279320
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring... -
Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land Steve Tibble 9780300284294
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality... -
The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, c. 950-1356 Guy Perry (Middlebury College, Vermont) 9781107196902
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69The Briennes were a highly important aristocratic family who hailed from the Champagne region of north-eastern France, but whose reach and impact extended across Europe and into the Crusader States... -
Byzantium and the Crusades by Jonathan Harris 9781780938318
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.99This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris's landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history.The book offers a... -
The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade by John D. Hosler
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In 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... -
The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan 9780674970786
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.36"The most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation."-Mark Whittow, Times Literary Supplement"Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense... -
Saladin by Anne-Marie Edde 9780674283978
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography-a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that...