Contesting the Crusades

• Author(s): Norman Housley,
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 216
• ISBN_10: 1405111895
  ISBN_13: 9781405111898
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Medieval ,

Description:... 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