Product Description: Crusading as a subject has expanded in recent years to include new fields of enquiry.  This book examines how crusading historiography includes new areas and new definitions, focusing on two fundamental issues in current writing: why people went on crusades and what forms the western settlement in the Near East took...read more

Product Description: In 1095 Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade to recover Jerusalem from the Seljuq Turks. Tens of thousands of people joined his cause, making it the single largest event of the Middle Ages. The conflict would rage for over 200 years, poisoning Christian and Islamic relations forever...read more

Product Description: In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the Normans had a formative influence on the development of states and societies in the British Isles, southern Italy and the Levant. Their achievements still resonate powerfully today, and represent a vital field of historical study...read more

Product Description: How did medieval hermits survive on their self-denying diet? What did they eat, and how did unethical monks get around the rules?

Product Description: A fascinating companion to the world?s most influential book, the Bible Expertly exploring the relationship between the books of the Bible and the land from which they came, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands offers: ? Detailed maps on topics ranging from the wanderings of Abraham to modern Jerusalem ? A comprehensive timeline comparing developments in Mesopotamia, Syria, Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, and Rome ? Features on the alphabet, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Zionist Movement ? Coverage beyond the biblical period that examines the Islamic conquests, the Crusades, and the current struggles between the Israelis and Palestinians Comprehensive, intriguing, and useful for a myriad of disciplines, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Bible Lands will deepen every reader?s understanding of the bestselling book of all time...read more

Product Description: The Crusades is an area of rapidly expanding interest. 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...read more

Product Description: Crusaders were not the only Europeans drawn to the Holy Land during the twelfth century. Many lay people and followers of religious orders made pilgrimages to the East to visit the holy sites, and many felt compelled to stay there, settling as monks or hermits in established monasteries or founding hermitages of their own...read more

This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps, explores the Middle Ages from the coming of the barbarian invasions in the fourth century to the first voyages to the New World in the 16th century.

Product Description: The Carmelites, the only contemplative religious order to have been founded in the Crusader States, first emerged as a group of hermits living on Mount Carmel, a site associated with the prophet Elijah. Soon after migrating to the West, in the mid-thirteenth century, they began to develop the geographical associations into a complex historical tradition based on the claim to have been founded by the prophet...read more