Documents on the Later Crusades, 1274-1580 (Documents in History Series) - Hardcover
In this book Norman Housley, the leading British specialist on the later crusades, has brought together and translated 62 texts which illustrate the key themes and developments within the movement between the collapse of the crusader states in the Holy Land and the age of the Counter-Reformation.
The documents have been carefully selected to provide a commentary on three aspects in particular of the later crusades. First, the extraordinary range and variety of the crusading experience are communicated through texts which relate to military activity in the eastern Mediterranean, Iberia and North Africa, the Baltic region, and a number of countries within the heart of Catholic Europe. Secondly, the 'nuts and bolts' of crusading are examined in the shape of the resources whose mobilisation made crusading possible, and the mechanisms used to harness them. Thirdly, the broad spectrum of contemporary responses to the crusading ideal is explored. The most important of these were enthusiastic acceptance, condemnatory rejection, and the assimilation of crusading zeal into expressions of national feeling. In his Introduction, Norman Housley demonstrates how the texts he has chosen cast light on these aspects of the later crusades.
The documents have been carefully selected to provide a commentary on three aspects in particular of the later crusades. First, the extraordinary range and variety of the crusading experience are communicated through texts which relate to military activity in the eastern Mediterranean, Iberia and North Africa, the Baltic region, and a number of countries within the heart of Catholic Europe. Secondly, the 'nuts and bolts' of crusading are examined in the shape of the resources whose mobilisation made crusading possible, and the mechanisms used to harness them. Thirdly, the broad spectrum of contemporary responses to the crusading ideal is explored. The most important of these were enthusiastic acceptance, condemnatory rejection, and the assimilation of crusading zeal into expressions of national feeling. In his Introduction, Norman Housley demonstrates how the texts he has chosen cast light on these aspects of the later crusades.
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Professor Norman Housley teaches medieval history at the University of Leicester.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0312161786
- ISBN 13 9780312161781
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages204
- EditorHousley Norman
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Documents on the Later Crusades 1274-1580
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. x-library hardcover, no DJ, edited and translated by Norman Housley, St. Martin's Press, 1996, ISBN 0312161786, 204 pp. including index. Without the library stuff: VERY GOOD ++ ( sticker remnant on the front pastedown and a light mark on the rear pastedown). Seller Inventory # 1275
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