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Norman Housley, ed. & trans.
Documents on the Later Crusades, 1274-1580.
Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
Macmillan Documents in History series.
ISBN 0333485580;
ISBN-13: 9780333485583.
Hardback, stitch bound.
143x224mm.
xiv,204pp, inc. 3 maps, 1 text figure, all monochrome.
English.
Very good (unused) condition: some light shelf wear to the dustjacket.This item £25.00
[Paperback in print at £20.99]
404g.
Historians of the crusading movement are becoming increasingly aware of the important role which it played in the religious, political and social life of Europe in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. To date, however, there has existed no collection of translated sources on the subject. 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.
This book will prove invaluable for the study and teaching of the later crusades. It will also confirm the place which they held within the main stream of the crusading movement, and their significance as an expression of Christian Holy War.
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