Crusades

The Crusades is an area of expanding student interest and students increasingly see an understanding of the roots of religious violence and of interaction between Christian and Islamic cultures as a critical tool for citizenship in the modern world. Made up of four volumes, the collection covers the following areas:Volume I: Contexts: The West and the Mediterranean World in the 11thVolume II: Crusading and the Crusader States 1095-1197Volume III: Crusading and the Crusader States 1198-1336Volume IV: Crusading CulturesBringing together a representative selection of the most important research on crusading, this collection features a group of carefully selected articles which, taken together, develop themes and problematics in crusading history. Edited by a leading scholar in the field and including a new introduction to guide the reader through the material, this new four volume collection will be an important reasearch resource for both student and scholar alike.Jotischky, Andrew is the author of 'Crusades', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415454186 and ISBN 0415454182.