Product Description: The fifty years that followed Mehmed II's capture of Constantinople in 1453 witnessed a substantial attempt to revive the crusade as the principal military mechanism for defending Christian Europe against the advance of the Ottoman Turks...read more

In this book Norman Housley, one of the most distinguished historians of the medieval period, provides an introduction to the complex history of crusading. Steers readers through the key debates in this popular area of medieval history. Draws on the author’s 30 years’ experience of crusading scholarship. Issues addressed range from the definition of ‘crusade’, through the motivation and intentions of the crusaders, to the consequences of the crusades for European society

Product Description: This collection of thirty-four essays by leading researchers in Medieval History focuses on the history of the Latin East and its role in the context of Mediterranean trade and Near Eastern political developments. Essays range in coverage from the topic of the church's approach towards warfare in the pre-crusade era, to the way in which historians in more recent centuries have chosen to reconstruct the medieval epoch...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Looking in depth at various historical accounts, Norman Housley examines the crusades, focusing on who the crusaders were, why they fought, and what they hoped to accomplish between the 11th and 15th centuries.

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Product Description: The expulsion of the Christians from the Holy Land in 1291 was far from being the end of the crusading movement. Crusades continued for three centuries over a vast area stretching from Morocco to Russia and played an important role in the politics and society of late medieval Europe...read more